Krishnadas, a petty sweet vendor at Erimayoor, Palakkad, is a lost man. His hopes of moving into a secure house from the tin-shed house, which shelters his four-member family, withered as the application for reclaiming the 10-cent paddy-wetland which the government had allotted him for setting up a house was rejected citing the Kerala Conservation of Paddy Land and Wetland Act, 2008.
The application for excluding the holding from the databank of paddy-wetland too met with the same fate. The efforts of his wife Sreedevi seeking the intervention of the Palakkad Collector through an adalat too had failed.
It was a report of the local-level monitoring committee (LLMC) headed by the agricultural officer that the holding cannot be reclaimed as it was paddy-wetland in the basic tax register and the property remained an agricultural land after the enactment of the Kerala Conservation of Paddy Land and Wetland Act 2008 that went against him.
