Thiruvananthapuram: About 50,000 families in Kerala would get land title deeds in the coming months, State Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan said.
Speaking after inaugurating the state level 'title deed' distribution programme here, Achuthanandan said the LDF government during its three years in office had provided title deeds to 60,000 persons. The government had also given 10,000 tribal families title deeds or ownership document of lands under the Tribal rehabilitation programme, Achuthanandan said.
One of the long pending demands of farmers, who settled in Idukki high ranges, was ownership documents for land in their possession.
Nearly 10,000 families in this category in Idukki district would be given title deeds in the present programme. Steps were also on to provide land to all landless tribals in the state, he said. The government's main objective was to make Kerala a state with land and home for all families by 2011, he added.