Homeless families protest state govt move to dislocate them in Tarn Taran

Our Correspondent

Tarn Taran, June 14

Homeless families belonging to Scheduled Caste communities, who were given ownership rights by the previous government of residential plots, on Tuesday launched an agitation by staging dharnas in five border area villages against the move of the state government to dislocate them from the plots.

The agitating families demanded that the government release grants worth Rs 5 lakh per family to enable them to construct a house on the allotted plot. The state government’s move to vacate illegal encroachments from the common land had led to the situation as the administration was getting the land vacated from them.

The affected families of Assal, Toot, Bhathe Bhaini, Chuslewar and Cheema Kalan villages were staging dharnas on the allotted plots.

They were holding the agitation under the banner of Dehati Mazdoor Sabha. While addressing on the occasion in different villages, Chaman Lal Darajke and Baldev Singh Pandori, leaders of the sabha, said these homeless families were given the ownership rights by the previous state government.

The leaders said that the ownership certificates were signed by the Deputy Commissioner concerned across the district on behalf of the state government. They warned the state government against dislocating the homeless families from their plots and said the families must oppose the move of the government.

Meanwhile, Rattan Singh Randhawa and other leaders of the Revolutionary Marxist Party of India supported the agitation of the Dehati Mazdoor Sabha launched in favour of the homeless families.