GUWAHATI: At least 324 constructions had been demolished on the second day of the eviction force at the Amchang Wildlife Sanctuary here on Tuesday. But there was once strong resistance from locals who refused to go away their properties even as bulldozers and jumbos arrived to demolish them.
On Tuesday morning, rigidity gripped the Jansimlu house as a girl lay down in protest in front of an excavator. Security staff needed to fight exhausting to counter the resistance and clear the realm. Two forest officers, Binod Kr Payeng and Bubul Das, had been injured when Islamil Haque, a neighborhood resident, allegedly attempted to hack them with a machete. Haque was once detained right away by the police.
Besides Kangkannagar, Yusufnagar and Nabajyotinagar, eviction drives had been additionally carried out in different areas corresponding to Garo basti, Jansimlu, Kailashnagar on Tuesday. A Namghar and a mosque had been additionally demolished at Kailashnagar.
With criticism pouring in from all quarters for the 'inhuman' nature of the move, state forest minister Pramial Rani Brahma said, "I have already discussed the matter with chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal. The government is contemplating the rehabilitation of the indigenous people and the victims of natural calamities. But eviction will continue."
"Since Monday, at least 734 residences including permanent and temporary structures were demolished. The eviction drive will continue," said an professional of the Kamrup (metro) district administration.
At least 5-sq.km house of the sanctuary is reportedly underneath encroachment by some 864 families throughout 37 villages. A previous eviction force in August this year had got rid of around 283 families.
Many of the evicted locals then again claimed that they have felony land paperwork and they had settled in the house almost 15 years in the past after being displaced by natural calamities corresponding to flood or erosion.
Meanwhile, protests endured around the state not easy the rapid rehabilitation of the victims which come with school scholars showing for his or her annual checks. Many of the evicted people with strengthen from the locals took out a torch rally at Khanapara in the evening.
All Assam Students' Union (Aasu) consultant Samujjal Bhattacharya said, "Such an inhuman action by the government is simply unacceptable. Students in the area have been badly hit as their exams are going on. Instead of evicting the indigenous people, the government should first evict the illegal settlers who have encroached the Satra lands."
Former chief minister Tarun Gogoi too strongly criticised Sonowal for the move, not easy rapid rehabilitation and reimbursement for the victims. "This government came to power with the promise of protecting the 'jati-mati-bheti' of the indigenous people of the state. Now they have shown their real colour by bulldozing their own people," he said.
The Coordination Committee of Tribal Organisations of Assam (CCTOA), an umbrella organisation of no less than 18 tribal our bodies, has called for a 12-hour Assam bandh on Wednesday in protest of the eviction force.
On Tuesday morning, rigidity gripped the Jansimlu house as a girl lay down in protest in front of an excavator. Security staff needed to fight exhausting to counter the resistance and clear the realm. Two forest officers, Binod Kr Payeng and Bubul Das, had been injured when Islamil Haque, a neighborhood resident, allegedly attempted to hack them with a machete. Haque was once detained right away by the police.
Besides Kangkannagar, Yusufnagar and Nabajyotinagar, eviction drives had been additionally carried out in different areas corresponding to Garo basti, Jansimlu, Kailashnagar on Tuesday. A Namghar and a mosque had been additionally demolished at Kailashnagar.
With criticism pouring in from all quarters for the 'inhuman' nature of the move, state forest minister Pramial Rani Brahma said, "I have already discussed the matter with chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal. The government is contemplating the rehabilitation of the indigenous people and the victims of natural calamities. But eviction will continue."
"Since Monday, at least 734 residences including permanent and temporary structures were demolished. The eviction drive will continue," said an professional of the Kamrup (metro) district administration.
At least 5-sq.km house of the sanctuary is reportedly underneath encroachment by some 864 families throughout 37 villages. A previous eviction force in August this year had got rid of around 283 families.
Many of the evicted locals then again claimed that they have felony land paperwork and they had settled in the house almost 15 years in the past after being displaced by natural calamities corresponding to flood or erosion.
Meanwhile, protests endured around the state not easy the rapid rehabilitation of the victims which come with school scholars showing for his or her annual checks. Many of the evicted people with strengthen from the locals took out a torch rally at Khanapara in the evening.
All Assam Students' Union (Aasu) consultant Samujjal Bhattacharya said, "Such an inhuman action by the government is simply unacceptable. Students in the area have been badly hit as their exams are going on. Instead of evicting the indigenous people, the government should first evict the illegal settlers who have encroached the Satra lands."
Former chief minister Tarun Gogoi too strongly criticised Sonowal for the move, not easy rapid rehabilitation and reimbursement for the victims. "This government came to power with the promise of protecting the 'jati-mati-bheti' of the indigenous people of the state. Now they have shown their real colour by bulldozing their own people," he said.
The Coordination Committee of Tribal Organisations of Assam (CCTOA), an umbrella organisation of no less than 18 tribal our bodies, has called for a 12-hour Assam bandh on Wednesday in protest of the eviction force.
Amchang eviction on in the face of strong resistance
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