Status and significance of common property land resources (CPLRs) in Tamil Nadu: Evidences from secondary sources

The Common Property Land Resources (CPLRs) are the most important source of rural poor in the rural pockets of India. The rural population in general and the poor in particular depend largely on common property land resources for their sustenance. In the last few decades, the availability of such immense resources was degraded in both qualitatively and quantitatively across the regions in India. The study results revealed that the availability and accessibility of CPLRs has coming down slowly from year-by-year exception to the category of other than current fallow land in Tamil Nadu during 1998–99 to 2013–14. It is estimated that around 4.3 per cent of CPLRs increase were observed in the state during the study periods. In Tamil Nadu, it is accounted that 4.3 per cent of PPLRs were converted into CPLRs during the periods of 1998–99 to 2013–14. It is further accounted that the per capita availability of forest, CPLRs and private land has also observed that declining trend during the study periods.