Unrest in village close to Raipur as residents get eviction notices for ‘MLA colony’

Greater than 80 households residing in Sammanpur village in Chhattisgarh’s capital Raipur have been staging protests for the final 10 days after they acquired eviction notices by the native administration stating that they’ve “illegally occupied” the land.

In line with native residents, the land categorized as shamilat charagah (pasture land denotes land reserved for frequent grazing) belonged to their forefathers, and of the entire variety of homes constructed there, round 30 had been constructed underneath the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY), the flagship scheme of the Central authorities.

They claimed that now, the federal government plans to construct a colony for legislators on the land in query. Nonetheless, the administration has not confirmed the declare.

The villagers, significantly girls with sticks of their fingers, have been staging protests from 10.00 am-10.00 pm each day for the final 10 days inside a group corridor within the village Sammanpur, additionally identified by the title Nakti, situated on the outskirts of the capital close to Raipur airport.

A lot of the villagers are day by day wage labourers who reside hand to mouth. One in all them, Roshan Sahu, advised PTI on Tuesday that on 17 April this 12 months, Raipur tehsildars (income officers) served eviction notices to round 85 households who’ve been residing within the Bhatapara space on the outskirts of the village to vacate the land.

The eviction notices by the tehsildar mentioned the land located in khasra no. 460 measuring 15.4790 hectares (round 38 acres) in Nakti village of the district Raipur, has been encroached/occupied by the encroachers residing in Nakti Gram Panchayat. The order to evict the encroachers from the mentioned land has been handed by this (tehsildar) court docket on 11 April 2025 underneath part 248 of the Land Income Code 195.

Within the discover, the authorities requested the occupants to surrender possession of the land, failing which the encroachment could be eliminated forcibly.