Rural Development and Panchayat Raj Minister Priyank Kharge has said that it was the Congress government that decided to declare Tandas, the Lambani hamlets, as revenue villages and ended the anxieties of millions of Lambani community members over the uncertainties of ownership of land they were living on.
Addressing a public meeting organised at Koravi Tanda in Chincholi taluk on Sunday, the Minister listed out the initiatives that he had, as a Social Welfare Minister in the previous Congress government, taken for the development of Banjara (Lambani) community.
“We had given ₹240 crore to Tanda Development Corporation. We declared several hamlets as Sewalal Pragathi Tanda and gave up to ₹2 crore for their development. We announced the construction of 400 community halls in Lambani Tandas and gave ₹25 lakh each. I had also allocated ₹190 crore for the development of Suragondanakoppa, a holy place for Lambanis, in Honnali taluk of Davangere district. However, the BJP government stopped all these initiatives,” he said.
