23-07-2025
Farmers' associations in Tiruppur resolve to sustain continuous sit-in protest demanding a solution to Inam land issue
Farmers' associations have resolved to continue their sit-in protest that entered the ninth day on Wednesday at Avinashipalayam in Tiruppur district, asserting their right to the Inam land they are using for agricultural purposes for generations.
Espousing the cause of 30 lakh families across the State, the protesters estimate that their rights to 13 lakh acres of land they have been using for generations have been denied by the HR and CE Department and the Wakf Board. The protest will continue until a definite solution is found.
According to Karunamoorthy, State Coordinator, Inam Nila Iyakkam, an umbrella organisation representing the affected farmers, lessees, and tenants using the Inam land, the zero value fixation for the land by the Registration Department has hit the farmers hard. The premise of the government authorities that the farmers enjoying the land under the Ryotwari system were encroachers was unacceptable.
The protestors have urged the Tamil Nadu Government to emulate the intervention made in recent years by the Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, and Kerala governments, in the interest of a section of inamdars who had been left out in the earlier exercise of conversion of the inam land into pattas.
The farmers have been seeking effective implementation of the Tamil Nadu Inam Estates (Abolition and Conversion into Ryotwari) Act, 1963, that provides for the acquisition of rights of land holders in Inam estates, and introduction of the ryotwari settlement in such estates. Likewise, the farmers have also emphasised on effective implementation of the Tamil Nadu Minor Inam (Abolition and Conversion into Ryotwari) Act, 1963, that provides for the acquisition of the rights of Inamdars in minor inams in the State, and the introduction of Ryotwari Settlement in such Inams.
