Majority Report of the Committee Constituted to ... - Forest Rights Act

extent of such land cultivated could not be ascertained due to the
conflict situation.
xvii) 1980 PAFs ( 53 % ) have mentioned that they are cultivating
crops on encroached lands since their forefather’s time.
xviii) 2299 PAFs ( 65 %) are cultivating betel vines in forest lands
since generations.
xix) 1374 PAFs ( 38% ) are dependent on fishing or prawn culture
ponds on forest lands since many generations.
xx) Betel vine cultivation provides major source of livelihood to 68
% of the PAFs.
I. Findings.
Part D
Conclusions
31. On the basis of the facts mentioned above the committee has
come to the following conclusions –
i) Total land required for the project from the 8 villages belonging
to 3 Grampanchayats
ii) All 8 villages are together going to lose a total of 4004 acres of
which 3566.32 acres (89%) is government land (forest land
included) and 437.68 acres (11 %) is private land.
iii) In the category of government land being acquired 2958.79
acres (83 %) is forest land and 607. 53 acres (17 %) is non-forest
land.
iv) 73 % of total land going to be acquired by POSCO belongs to
the three villages of Dhinkia, Nuagaon and Govindpur. These
three villages together are cultivating forest land which is 58% of
the total land to be acquired by POSCO. Hence the maximum
protest against POSCO is being waged by these 3 villages as they
stand to lose a sustainable and diverse livelihood if these lands
are acquired by POSCO-India. There are some proportion of
families in these villages who are not opposed to POSCO.