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Amendment to the HR and CE Act causes anxiety among delta farmers
The Hindu
The recent amendment of the Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowment Act, 1959, brought in presumably to check the ‘increasing unlawful possession’ of agricultural lands belonging to religious and cha
The recent amendment of the Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowment Act, 1959, brought in presumably to check the ‘increasing unlawful possession’ of agricultural lands belonging to religious and charitable institutions has caused anxiety among delta farmers who fear that misuse of the provision could not be ruled out completely.
A good number of farmers in the delta districts have taken on lease agriculture lands belonging to the religious and charitable institutions managed directly or supervised by the HR and CE Department for cultivation.
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When fed into Latin, pusilla comes out denoting “very small”. The Baillon’s crake can be missed in the field, when it is at a distance, as the magnification of the human eye is woefully short of what it takes to pick up this tiny creature. The other factor is the Baillon’s crake’s predisposition to present less of itself: it moves about furtively and slides into the reeds at the slightest suspicion of being noticed. But if you are keen on observing the Baillon’s crake or the ruddy breasted crake in the field, in Chennai, this would be the best time to put in efforts towards that end. These birds live amidst reeds, the bulrushes, which are likely to lose their density now as they would shrivel and go brown, leaving wide gaps, thereby reducing the cover for these tiddly birds to stay inscrutable.