Village panchayat president submits resignation to Tenkasi Collector condemning ‘official apathy’
A village panchayat president in Tenkasi resigned to protest official inaction regarding community certificates for the Kaattunayakkan community and the illegal occupation of panchami lands. The official was later pacified with assurances, while other residents raised concerns about local environmental pollution.
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This illustrates the challenges of local governance and the struggle for land rights and social justice in rural India.
Frustrated over alleged official apathy in issuing community certificate to Kaattunayakkan community children and retrieving ‘panchami lands’, a village panchayat president submitted his resignation to District Collector Ranjeet Singh during the weekly grievances redress meeting held at the Collectorate on Monday.
The aggrieved president of Kodikurichi village panchayat under Kadayanallur panchayat union, Dhakshinamurthy, who got elevated to this post after the demise of the then president Udayar in 2023, said no solution could be found for the villagers’ prolonged struggle for community certificate for Kaattunayakkan community people, retrieval of ‘panchami lands’ and a few more infrastructure issues due to official apathy.
According to him, the children of Kaattunayakkar community could not pursue higher education as community certificate to these children was being denied. Moreover, 84 cents of ‘panchami land’ had been illegally given patta in favour of an individual and which could not be retrieved.
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