Carmane Villa’s view in Hosagar in the middle of Shivanga’s mother. | Photo Credit: Future GT
The inhabitants of Karimane, the village of Hosanagar Taluk from the Shivamogg district, have been fighting for rights over the houses, places and land they have been fighting for several years. Applications looking for permission to build houses in places assigned within the Ashraya housing system grants the land under section 94c of the Karnataka Act for the construction of houses and regularization of “Bagair Hukum” cultivation has remained over the decades.
Also GP Office
Since the survey in Cannada was more than 185 acres in survey number 106 Karimane as a “proposed forest” or Sochith Aranya, the villagers were unable to obtain rights to their properties. In fact, the Karimane Gram Panchayat office also exists on Earth as a proposed forest. The bus booth, Anganwadi, the school and the road that passes through the village will reach the same category of land.
Devamma Gopal, President Panchayat, is one of those who fight for rights over the country. He has no khata for his house in the village. The forest department also did not seek people looking for land under the Forest Act.
Long fight
“This is a special case. We were not allowed to build houses because they are forestry. However, applications submitted under the Forest Rights Act.
Most of the inhabitants in the village are displaced after the construction of dams for Hydel Power projects in the district. Of these, 86 families in the village were assigned in 1991-92. They got Khatas on the site. Next year, however, the whole area was referred to as “proposed forest”. Since then, none of the recipients have been allowed to build houses on the website.
Even the Karimane Gram Panchayat office exists on Earth identified as a “proposed forest”. | Photo Credit: Sathish GT
Mrs Gopala said Hindu that every time Panchayat organized Grama Sabha, a meeting with villagers, people raised the same problem. “Up to 43 families, including mine, are waiting for a grant according to section 94C,” she said. This matter became a accident block that would even give the ground for the burial ground in the village.
After repeated requirements and protests of villagers, MLA for Tirthahalli Araga Jnanendra and Deputy Commissioner Gurudatt Hegade visited the village.
When the Hindu contacted Mr. Hegade, the officer said he knew about the matter. “The country has been recorded as a forest. Once the soil is recorded as a forestry, it cannot be taken back,” he said.
Opportunity to check
He said that, after the recent direction of the Supreme Court, there was an opportunity to review the forests considered. “Given the old satellite maps, we can restore the state of land. It is expected that the state government is expected to start a mobile application for this process. We assured villagers to solve the problem,” he added.
Published – July 19, 2025 20:22
