3 April 2011

An extract from The Statesman

Even as a rather desperate Left Front is banking on its 'success' in ensuring secure land tenure for the poor to regain its support base among the downtrodden ahead of the assembly poll, its own government's status report on the Totos - the smallest primitive tribal group in the state - tells a different story.

...though transfer of tribal land is illegal, the report found that more than 72 acres of Toto land have been transferred to outsiders at a very low price. As a result, at least 88 Toto families have become landless on their own soil.

Source: Pranesh Sarkar , The Statesman

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