Farmers affiliation seeks revival of issuance of guide patta paperwork

The Tamizhaga Cauvery Vivasayigal Sangam has sought the revival of issuance of ‘chita’ doc manually by village administrative officers since farmers, tenant farmers specifically, are unable to avail loans or measure their paddy at direct buy centres.

Addressing the media at Mannargudi on Saturday, July 19, after chairing a gathering of State and District-level office-bearers of the affiliation, its common secretary P. R. Pandian mentioned the VAOs, of late, refused to situation ‘chita’ paperwork manually citing an instruction from the Revenue Administration and Disaster Management Department’s round that ‘chita’ paperwork ought to be obtained on-line solely.

The instruction straight impacted the tenant farmers as it will not be potential to acquire the ‘chita’ of their title, significantly these entered into lease settlement with temples and trusts, whereas the ‘chita’ doc was an important doc to avail insurance coverage cowl for the crops and measuring of the identical after harvest. Hence, the affiliation sought revival of guide issuance of ‘chita’ by VAOs, he added.

The issuance of ‘Uzhavar Attai’ (identification playing cards for farmers) had additionally been suspended. Already, non-issuance of ‘Uzhavar Attai’ to the tenant farmers had saved them away from availing advantages prolonged to the farming neighborhood by means of numerous welfare schemes applied for its uplift.

The State authorities ought to provoke steps to make tenant farmers additionally eligible to avail the welfare help by saying {that a} certificates from VAO could be suffice to avail the advantages.