Amen!
On 3 July 2013 04:08, Dr. Ferdinando dos Reis Falcão < [email protected]> wrote: > > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Selling Ancestral land > Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2013 08:36:39 +0530 > > > > > > > I fully agree > with the author John Razana of the letter “Selling ancestral land” (Herald > 2 > June). Ancestral land is surely not sold by owners for greed as the Chief > Minister and many others put it. A genuine landowner knows how their > forefathers sacrificed to own and maintain their land. That for the last 5 > decades the genuine landowners have been through innumerable hardships due > to > corrupt governance. Apathy from police to take cognizance in land disputes > and > enforce maintenance of Law have led to several assaults and even killings. > Encroachments on ancestral land are the order of the day and the > Panchayats are > mostly ignorants who cannot read plans, nor land documents and most of them > corrupt and hand in glove. Construction licenses > are issued without knowledge of physical boundaries of the land. Illegal > constructions are not acted upon as per Law. The Munkar Act and Tenancy > Act have created pseudo owners who have sold > land for greed as neither they, nor their ancestors have sacrificed for the > land. Is the genuine landowner going to waste his whole lifetime in > litigations, > stress, monetary waste and uncertainty about the future of his ancestral > land? Is > he going to transfer all these headaches to his children? The government > should > do a rethink about its perspective on the so called ”beneficial piece of > legislation” that have made ancestral land in a liability rather than an > asset > for the genuine landowners. > > > Dr. Ferdinando dos Reis Falcão > > > -- DEV BOREM KORUM Gabe Menezes.
