The YSRCP government has taken a historic decision to give complete rights to the Scheduled Castes (SCs) over the assigned lands that they have been enjoying for more than 20 years, says Social Welfare Minister M. Nagarjuna.
Addressing the media here on Friday, Mr. Nagarjuna said that the A.P. Assigned Lands (Prohibition of Transfers) Act, 1977, prevented the transfer of assigned lands. The idea was to prevent others from taking over the lands from the poor and depriving them of the benefit. However, it prevented the beneficiaries from selling their land to meet their monetary needs, the Minister said.
Realising this, the government had taken a decision to ensure that full rights on the assigned lands, which were given to the poor more than 20 years ago, would be vested with the beneficiaries.
