GUWAHATI: The Assam authorities on Tuesday launched an eviction drive to clear round 2,000 hectares of land being illegally occupied by over 2,500 households at Burha Chapori Wildlife Sanctuary in Sonitpur district amid tight police safety.
The households being evicted belong to the minority group and had been primarily engaged in cultivation.
Meanwhile, the Gauhati High Court, whereas rejecting a prayer for interim order in opposition to the eviction, has directed the authorities to not destroy the standing crops on the land in query until the subsequent listening to. Around 500 hectares have been cleared on the primary day of the drive.
Sonitpur deputy commissioner Deba Kumar Mishra informed the media that the drive will proceed for 3 days. He stated “thousands of people illegally occupied the forest area for decades” and the administration has determined to clear the encroachment throughout the ongoing train within the sanctuary, situated 40 km from Tezpur.
The sanctuary, which is unfold over round 4,400 hectares of land on the south financial institution of the Brahmaputra, was declared a reserve forest in 1974.
The DC added that the households had been issued notices to vacate the land a pair of weeks in the past and nearly all of the individuals had already left earlier than the graduation of the drive.
Meanwhile, an official stated the forest division will go for afforestation within the land as soon as the world is cleared of encroachments.
The Himanta Biswa Sarma-led authorities has been finishing up eviction drives in forest land in numerous components of the state because it assumed energy in May 2021, with two such workouts undertaken in December final yr.
Last month, over 400 out of the 4600 hectares land of the Pabha reserve forest in Assam’s Lakhimpur district was cleared of encroachers by the district administration amid heavy deployment of police safety. The forest is situated about 15 km south of NH-15. About 500 households belonging to the minority group had been evicted from the land.
The households being evicted belong to the minority group and had been primarily engaged in cultivation.
Meanwhile, the Gauhati High Court, whereas rejecting a prayer for interim order in opposition to the eviction, has directed the authorities to not destroy the standing crops on the land in query until the subsequent listening to. Around 500 hectares have been cleared on the primary day of the drive.
Sonitpur deputy commissioner Deba Kumar Mishra informed the media that the drive will proceed for 3 days. He stated “thousands of people illegally occupied the forest area for decades” and the administration has determined to clear the encroachment throughout the ongoing train within the sanctuary, situated 40 km from Tezpur.
The sanctuary, which is unfold over round 4,400 hectares of land on the south financial institution of the Brahmaputra, was declared a reserve forest in 1974.
The DC added that the households had been issued notices to vacate the land a pair of weeks in the past and nearly all of the individuals had already left earlier than the graduation of the drive.
Meanwhile, an official stated the forest division will go for afforestation within the land as soon as the world is cleared of encroachments.
The Himanta Biswa Sarma-led authorities has been finishing up eviction drives in forest land in numerous components of the state because it assumed energy in May 2021, with two such workouts undertaken in December final yr.
Last month, over 400 out of the 4600 hectares land of the Pabha reserve forest in Assam’s Lakhimpur district was cleared of encroachers by the district administration amid heavy deployment of police safety. The forest is situated about 15 km south of NH-15. About 500 households belonging to the minority group had been evicted from the land.
