Providing Compensatory Justice-Draft National Perspective Plan for Women

the scheduled areas. If we consider all the lands for which legal titles (pattas) exist in the scheduled areas of Andhra Pradesh, the non-tribals own more than six lakh acres which is more than half of the total lands might have been reclaimed from virgin forests long ago by the ancestors of the present non-tribal residents of the scheduled areas. But most of them have been acquired by the non-tribals from the tribals in the recent past. The plain truth is that the influx of the non-tribals into the scheduled areas has been steadily increasing over the years, and so also the acquisition of lands by them.