Jalaja Naik, Chairperson, Karnataka State Tanda Development Corporation has said that the Revenue Department was in a process of setting up of special centres for removal of technical and legal hurdles in order to convert Lambani Tandas into revenue villages.
Speaking at the awareness programme on the issue at the newly built Banjara Bhavan here on Tuesday, she said that K. Narasimaiah Committee was constituted to look into the hurdles in converting Tandas into revenue villages, had already submitted its report to the government.
“The decision to set up the centres has been taken to remove these hurdles, a project which is pending for years”, Ms. Naik said.
Ms. Naik said that any Tanda which has fifty houses or the population of 250 people is eligible to become revenue village. She asserted that the role of Banjara community is also vital in strengthening socioeconomic and educational condition of the community by conversion of Tandas into revenue villages.
The former MLC said that the survey work of Tandas was partially over in the State and the conversion would begin after the completion of the survey.
Leaders of the community and the officials of the Corporation were present in the programme.
