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Friday, 5 August 2016

In Odisha, these villagers pay rent for land lost to the sea

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Waterfront disintegration has wiped out 4300 sections of land yet income officers demand the cess and register cases for non-installment. 

Their property was gulped by the propelling Bay of Bengal quite a while prior, however the inhabitants of Satabhaya, arranged by the edge of the ocean in Odisha's Kendrapara locale, keep on paying cess for this land no more exists. 

The individuals who don't pay land rent have been served sees by Odisha's income organization; an endorsement body of evidence had been enrolled against them under the Odisha Public Demands Recovery Act. 

Beach front disintegration has consumed unfathomable bits of Satabhaya Gram Panchayat.Approximately 4,300 sections of land of area have been submerged under seawater in the course of the most recent four decades, while the staying 2,500 sections of land of area, both government and private, has turned fruitless either because of entrance of saline water or sand throwing. There is not really any cultivable land left in the panchayat including towns, for example, Satabhaya, Kanhupur, Rabindrapali and Gobindpur. 

On the ocean bottom 

"My hereditary area should now be lying some place on the ocean bottom. In our town, saline water has victimized the farming estimation of area while sand rises have wiped land limits from the guide. However, individuals keep on paying rent for non-existent area, trusting that the administration would some time or another repay loss of business by giving area equivalent to what they now have in income records," said Sudarshan Rout, an inhabitant of Satabhaya. 

Mr. Defeat said paying rent for non-existent area was important as the administration demands upgraded land records before issuing wage or position declarations.