Even the Supreme Court confirmed that the lands were being cultivated by adivasis . From 1985 onwards all those lands were being cultivated by adivasis . The landlords vacated those lands and left those places long back .
Now the case which was closed with a judgement by the district court is reopened and show cause notices were served to girijans saying that landlords are cultivating those lands and so why they may not be vacated and registered cases accordingly . Though the landlords are not cultivating the lands the officers confirmed that the lands are being cultivated by landlords . This fact was not in the notice of the adivasis who are actually cultivating those lands . They made it a issue of landlords and the officers . All this is done according to a conspiracy . In these courts generally by remaining silent government officers helped the landlords to get victory . In the name of the implementation of the judgement of the court the land acquisition officers handed over the compensation to landlords . This is their plan . By understanding all this adivasis of Kondamodalu joined in all the cases in 2013 as respondents . They stood firm facing the machinations of the landlords and explained in the courts their argument in those cases .
In course of time in 2013 a new Act of Land Acquisition came into force . It became necessary to government officials the resolution of grama sabha and referendum . The officers in their usual way prepared a false record showing that a grama sabha was convened in Kondamodalu . The adivasis approached the High Court contradicting this report . The High Court granted stay for the implementation of notification in this case saying that there is prima face evidence in the arguments of adivasis . Under these circumstances the officials came forward with the initiative of IAS officers to come to 16 an agreement with the adivasis of Kondamodalu . A memorandum of understanding ( MoU ) was made on 22 nd June 2017 to buy a land of 426 acres at the place selected by adivasis and hand it over to them and to get compensation from the government for the cultivating land of 150 acres of adivasis . The adivasis withdrew their case in the High Court only after project officers and land acquisition officers signed on MoU .
Even before the implementation of this MoU some other forces planned to pay compensation for land to landlords . The special deputy collector who happened to be the officer in charge of land disputes gave some judgments on the cases of 2011 just before the Covid-19 lockdown on January 8 th and 9 th of 2020 . All those judgements were written with back dates . Even before these judgments the land acquisition officers paid 17 crores of rupees as compensation for land to landlords . An agitation was launched on these judgments during Covid period by adivasis . A stay was granted on those prejudiced illegal judgments given by district collector and special deputy collector . The cases were handed over to the immediate higher officer of the special deputy collector . Then the district collector ordered to hear all these cases as sue motto by the settlement court which was under the PO of the ITDA project officer . After hearing the PO , court gave a judgment rejecting the arguments of the landlords in February 2022 . The revenue officers and land acquisition officers who paid compensation to landlords illegally and also as they were involved in some other corruption cases were arrested and jailed . Cases were registered on them and the hearing is going on .
The inundation of upper regions of the Godavari during floods increased from 2019 onwards . The construction of coffer dam in the upper region of the project in the
Godavari is the reason for this inundation . So , the people of several villages of Devipatnam vacated their villages and went to colonies without getting compensation . But the villagers of Kondamodalu panchayat went to upper areas during the floods and lived there in huts . They decided not to vacate their villages until the land problem was cleared . They would go to Neladonelapaadu colony only after the completion of the construction of colony and after the release of basic notifications about the lands . The basic notifications in regard to 426 acres of land noted in the MoU were released . Even before that 42 crores of rupees were released for the buying of 426 acres for 424 families . The adivasis decided to be alert until the process of getting the lands is completed . Accordingly on 19 th April , 2022 they inaugurated their colony . They started a new chapter in their lives with new problems and new challenges .
The struggles of Kondamodalu adivasis proved that great awareness and fighting spirit are necessary to encounter the landlord classes . The experiences of this struggle teach us the lesson that the struggle for land depends on legal forums , and in different forms in addition to the fight for land on the land itself . The organising of oppressed people behind the Sangham with determination is an absolute necessity for the victory .
The struggle for land by the adivasis of Kondamodalu in addition to the struggle on the land had several phases - approaching the courts , government offices and depending on revenue records and etc . In every phase the struggle for a comprehensive and scientific rehabilitation is linked with their struggle for land .
Getting inspiration and support from Kondamodalu , land struggles of Adivasis spread to Venkatareddy Gudem , Kunkala , Manugopula etc areas in West
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