Samithi opposes private estate group’s land offer for Wayanad medical college

Bhoo Avakasha Samithi has opposed Mananthavady municipality’s proposal to accept 25 acres of land offered free by a private estate group for the Government Medical College, Wayanad, in exchange for permission to convert other plantation land, warning that the move could undermine lawful land acquisition.

Addressing the media in Wayanad on Monday (October 12), M. Geethanandan, social activist and general convener of the Samithi, demanded that the government take over all plantations allegedly held through forged documents and distribute the land among the landless. He said the government should not accept land offered by those allegedly holding it illegally.