Keri/Valpoi: Four days after the state government issued a proclamation intending to settle land rights issues of villagers inside Mhadei wildlife sanctuary, it was withdrawn citing a “clerical error”.
The document, which concerned the ownership of horticultural and agricultural land in the sanctuary, had to be rolled back following the intervention of health minister and local MLA Vishwajit Rane. The proclamation, which concerned at least 16 villages in Sattari.
Issued by Sattari deputy collector Rajesh Ajgaonkar, the proclamation also brought in some restrictions on activities inside the sanctuary to protect it. Villagers took objection to a condition that “no fresh cleaning or breaking of land for cultivation or any other purpose shall be conducted”.