Eviction drive launched to clear encroached village grazing reserve land in Assam

The eviction drive started at Bakrikuchi village underneath Borkhetry income circle early within the morning amid tight safety.

No untoward incidents have been reported to date, District Commissioner Nibedan Das Patowary advised reporters right here.

By a discover, the circle workplace on June 3 requested the encroachers at VGR to clear the land however the residents approached the Gauhati Excessive Court docket which dominated that every one VGR lands throughout the state should be cleared.

VGR land is designated for the particular objective of cattle grazing in villages.

“The folks residing on the encroached land cooperated with the district administration and over 70 per cent of them had moved out with their belongings,” Patowary mentioned.

Round 300 households had settled on the VGR and they’re cooperating with the administration, he mentioned.

Round 500 safety personnel have been deployed within the space and extra have been saved on standby to forestall any untoward incidents, IGP Akhilesh Kumar Singh, who can also be tenting on the website, mentioned. “The eviction has been peaceable to date and now we have not confronted any resistance.

A complete of 452 bighas have been encroached. However folks have constructed homes solely on 82 bighas. They use the remaining space for fisheries and agriculture. A report is being ready and motion shall be taken accordingly, a circle official mentioned.

There are additionally colleges, mosques and Anganwadi centres within the village.

Altogether 12 bulldozers have been pressed into service to demolish the unauthorised constructions.

Most of the encroachers have been seen tenting with their belongings on the principle street resulting in the village they usually demanded that they need to be adequately rehabilitated.

That is the second eviction drive in June. The sooner drive was carried out on June 15 and 16, when 667 households in Hasilabeel village in Goalpara district have been evicted.

Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma had just lately mentioned that eviction drives to clear encroached land will proceed.

Many eviction drives have been carried out over the past 4 years, and his authorities has ensured that the cleared land is just not encroached upon once more, Sarma mentioned.

“Now we have carried out a minimum of one eviction drive in every district, and our greatest achievement is that now individuals are afraid to decide on encroached land,” Sarma had mentioned.

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