GUWAHATI: Monday's eviction force to clear the Amchang Wildlife Sanctuary and elephant corridors of encroachers, left many dwellers crying and protesting. Students making ready for their next session stared at an unsure long term.
Carpenter Dharmeshwar Doley was once left numb when his thatched space was once demolished in the wooded area division force at Khankang Naga. He mentioned he would now not depart his space till the authorities rehabilitated his family. Others, who had lost their properties, were also in tears. "In 2003, I came here after losing everything to floods in Dhakuakahana in Lakhimpur district. There are many, displaced by floods and erosion, who have settled here. We are sons of the soil and how could this government-which came to power on the promise of protecting the indigenous people-tear down our houses without rehabilitating us?" Doley asked in despair. Official resources mentioned there are a number of hundred unlawful hutments in the Khangkang Nagar area, majority of which belong to the Mishing community.
Nine-year-old Sabina and her family were left homeless in the middle of her annual exam. Dressed in her faculty uniform and school bag in hand, she could now not forestall crying on the sight of her space being razed. "Her exams are on and winter has set in, where do we go? Isn't it inhuman?" Sabina's mom cried.
Out of the 408 structures demolished, no less than 188 were in Nabajyoti Nagar. The eviction force will proceed on Tuesday too. The All Assam Tribal Sangha (AATS), the umbrella organisation of tribal teams, mentioned, "Instead of allotting land rights to the forest dwellers who had settled before 2005 under the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Right) Act, 2006, the government is trying to evict them in a barbaric manner. We will launch a massive statewide protest if the eviction drive does not stop immediately," warned AATS basic secretary Aditya Khakhlari.
The state government resumed the eviction force on Monday after it was once kept on hold in August this yr following a Gauhati high court docket order. Earlier, the eviction force was once discontinued after statewide protests.
Carpenter Dharmeshwar Doley was once left numb when his thatched space was once demolished in the wooded area division force at Khankang Naga. He mentioned he would now not depart his space till the authorities rehabilitated his family. Others, who had lost their properties, were also in tears. "In 2003, I came here after losing everything to floods in Dhakuakahana in Lakhimpur district. There are many, displaced by floods and erosion, who have settled here. We are sons of the soil and how could this government-which came to power on the promise of protecting the indigenous people-tear down our houses without rehabilitating us?" Doley asked in despair. Official resources mentioned there are a number of hundred unlawful hutments in the Khangkang Nagar area, majority of which belong to the Mishing community.
Nine-year-old Sabina and her family were left homeless in the middle of her annual exam. Dressed in her faculty uniform and school bag in hand, she could now not forestall crying on the sight of her space being razed. "Her exams are on and winter has set in, where do we go? Isn't it inhuman?" Sabina's mom cried.
Out of the 408 structures demolished, no less than 188 were in Nabajyoti Nagar. The eviction force will proceed on Tuesday too. The All Assam Tribal Sangha (AATS), the umbrella organisation of tribal teams, mentioned, "Instead of allotting land rights to the forest dwellers who had settled before 2005 under the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Right) Act, 2006, the government is trying to evict them in a barbaric manner. We will launch a massive statewide protest if the eviction drive does not stop immediately," warned AATS basic secretary Aditya Khakhlari.
The state government resumed the eviction force on Monday after it was once kept on hold in August this yr following a Gauhati high court docket order. Earlier, the eviction force was once discontinued after statewide protests.
Amchang wildlife sanctuary: Evicted forest dwellers demand rehabilitation
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