Revenue Minister E. Chandrasekharan has said that the ministerial team has inspected the Kurinji Sanctuary areas and it was clear that it included residential plots.
He along with Ministers M.M. Mani and K. Raju visted Vattavada, Kottakambur and Tamil Nadu border areas.
Talking to mediapersons at Kadavary in the evening, he said that there were farm lands and residential areas in the proposed sanctuary. When the sanctuary as notified, its borders were not clearly identified.
Many memorandums received in the visit. There were complaints even when the sanctuary was notified, he said. The mediapersons were now aware of the human inhabitants at the area including Kadavary and Kambakallu.
The borders could not be defined even after 11 years of the sanctuary notification. There would be no problem for those legally got the land. The proposed sanctuary would be implemented after finding solution to the problems of those legally inhabited there.
He said that the officials were not for creating problems to the people but for finding remedies to them. He said that the team did not visit the land under Joice George M.P. and his family as there were legal problems related to it.
Moreover, the MP had given review petition to the District Collector, he said.
The team will also meet peoples representative and general public at Munnar from 11 a.m. on Tuesday.