BICHOLIM
The Mayem Bhuvimochan Samiti will submit a memorandum to President Ram Nath Kovind during his visit to the State for the Liberarion Day celebration, seeking his intervention in ensure land ownership rights to residents of Mayem village.
The Samiti has also decided to stage a one-day dharna as a mark of protest outside the Mayem panchayat on December 19.
Addressing a news conference in Bicholim, Samiti members Rajesh Kalangutkar, Sakharam Pednekar and Kashinath Mayekar lamented that in the absence of land ownership rights since the Portuguese rule, residents of Mayem could not register houses in their names and were not entitled to various schemes of the government.
The Samiti stated that the memorandum will be presented to President Kovind by freedom fighter Chandrakant Pednekar.
