Odisha plans corpus fund to protect land rights of SC/STs
BHUBANESWAR: Odisha govt is planning to create a corpus fund to buy land from scheduled castes (SC)s and scheduled tribes (ST)s in case they face any exigency and return the same when they are in a position to buy it back. The move is meant to prevent influential people from coercing the vulnerable section into selling their land. “While every effort is being made to ensure that SCs and STs don’t need to sell their land in distress, if they still want to monetise it for any reason, the govt plans to buy and keep the land protected for two-three…