India, Oct. 28 -- The Bombay High Court recently directed the Thane collector to regularise the farming land of a tribal farmer that has been pending since 2009, observing that the prolonged inaction despite the release of multiple government resolutions (GRs) and a 2019 ministerial order had caused 'grave prejudice' to the farmer.

According to the petition, the state government had issued government resolutions (GRs) on December 27, 1978, and November 28, 1991, permitting the regularisation of encroached government lands being cultivated by tribal farmers. Even in 2007 and 2008, GRs were issued, reiterating the need for implementation of the due regularisation.

In 2009, Bhagwan Narayan Bhoir, a farmer from Kalyan who was farming on gov...