Hyderabad: The battle for rights over 'podu' farmlands has moved deep into the heart of tiger territory in the reserve forest in Komaram Bheem-Asifabad district where Phalguna, a tigress who migrated from Maharashtra, resulted in revival of the fortune of its types in Telangana state.A protest by villagers led by BJP leader Dr Palvai Harish Babu on April 8, requiring that individuals who occupied forest land illegally in the Kadamba reserve forest block of the Penchikalpet forest variety, epitomises the dispute between people requiring pattas over unlawfully occupied forest land and wildlife in the state.

It was in the Kadamba area that Phalguna, the tigress, brought to life four cubs in 2016, the very first to be born in the combined Adilabad district in many years.

Phalguna gave birth to another litter of 3 cubs, making her the poster-girl amongst tiger conservationists for revival of her types' fortunes in Telangana state.In fact, such was the enthusiasm that Phalguna's very first litter evoked that then forests minister Jogu Ramanna, together with Sirpur-Kagaznagar MLA from the TRS, Koneru Konappa, Mudhole MLA G.

Vittal Reddy, and D.S.

Redya Naik from Dornakal, on August 31, 2016, presenting Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao with a framed picture of Phalguna with her cubs near her den.

Even more considerably, India Post in 2018 issued a postage stamp with a photo of Phalguna with her first litter to mark her significant contribution to Telangana's and India's tiger population.

The department also provided a photo postcard of Phalguna.Before Phalguna's arrival in 2015 from the Tadoba-Andhari tiger range in Maharashtra and her settling in the forest corridor linking the Kawal tiger reserve in Adilabad and Maharashtra, there were hardly any tigers in the district, conserve for the odd or occasional migrant from Maharashtra.

While some probably made their method back into Maharashtra, some were eliminated in the combined Adilabad district by regional poachers.

According to wildlife specialists, all the tigers in northern Telangana, for many years, were picked off one by one by poachers who left Kawal tiger reserve without a single tiger for some years.

It was just in 2015 that presence of tigers, who relocated from Maharashtra, were found in the Eturunagaram Wildlife Sanctuary in the previous Warangal district.

This sanctuary too was once house to tigers however for many years, they were cleaned out by poachers.It enjoys this tiger heartland of Telangana state, in what is now the Asifabad district, that the most recent battle over Podu land rights has actually moved into with the BJP leaders leading people from Kondapally and a couple of others, moved into grab forest land into the reserve forest areas in Kondapally North, Kondapally West, Kondapally South and Bombaiguda beats on April 8.

The attempt to by force inhabit forest land ended with the cops removing the protesters from the forest areas and the BJP accusing the authorities of beating up the occupiers and its leaders.

At least 2 ladies authorities suffered bleeding injuries in the attacks by the villagers on the security information that looked for to kick out the encroachers from the forest land in this episode.

It might be recalled that the state federal government has actually been repeatedly assuring those practicing 'Podu' or shifting cultivation will be offered pattas and this is believed to have actually emboldened people, in addition to leaders of political parties, including the ruling TRS, to force the concern and keep the state forest department out of the forest locations that have actually been unlawfully inhabited.