J U D G M E N T

Petitioners who were rendered homeless and landless in the flood of 2018, have filed this writ petition seeking a direction to the respondents to proceed with Ext.P9 proceedings complaining that the Tahasildar is going back from the findings in Ext.P9 with respect to the land already identified for their rehabilitation and they are being compelled to find out other land.

2. Consequent to the devastating flood of 2018, the Government issued various orders for the rehabilitation of those affected by the natural calamities, providing funds from the Chief Minister's Distress relief Fund (CMDRF). As per Ext.P1 order dated 10.10.2018 Government ordered that a sum of rupees Six Lakhs would be sanctioned for payment to those who lost their houses as well as the land and who are not having any land suitable for construction of residential buildings. It was also ordered that the District Collectors have to find out the people living in ecologically sensitive areas and to formulate a scheme for identifying those who are residing in such areas which are prone to landsliding and rehabilitate them in safe and secure places. In that process the amount to be payable to such families