Massive Anti-encroachment Drive Underway in Parts of Assam; Nearly 400 Acres of Land to be Cleared
In an attempt to crackdown on ‘unlawful’ encroachments, the Assam authorities kicked off a full-size eviction pressure on Monday morning in Batadrava in Nagaon district. The pressure targets to clean out ‘unlawful’ encroachments via way of means of Muslim migrants withinside the region.
Nearly 397 acres of land is ready to be cleared withinside the key encroachment pressure. Thousands of CRPF and Assam police battalion employees were deployed withinside the Hidubi region in Batadrava, the birthplace of 15th-century Vaishnavite reformer Guru Sankardev.
The eviction pressure is to be executed in and round Batadrava region from Monday and is in all likelihood to maintain for numerous days put up that as well, in line with officers. A survey changed into carried out withinside the region to perceive the ‘unlawful encroachments’ earlier than the eviction pressure, in line with officers.
District management officers claimed that notices had been despatched to round 1,000 alleged encroacher households in the course of October, asking them to clean the land, in step with PTI.
According to Leena Doley, Superintendent of Police of Nagaon district, “Civil admn had in advance issued note due to the fact those are the authorities’s plots of land. From Dec 13, safety employees are tenting right here and engaging in flag march. Many encroachers have already left the region.”
Meanwhile, beforehand of the demolition pressure via way of means of the Himanta Biswa Sarma-led Assam authorities, loads of households residing at the ‘encroached’ land have left the place. Many of them had dismantled their homes and moved on from there after the deployment of heavy safety cover.
The management publicly introduced the eviction pressure and requested all unlawful occupants to go away the region with their belongings.
On September 12, Chief Minister Sarma informed the Assam Assembly that a complete of 4,449 households were evicted throughout the country for alleged encroachment because the BJP-led authorities took price for the second one time in May remaining year.
Sarma had stated that the authorities did now no longer perform any research at the citizenship of evicted households to discover in the event that they had been Indian nationals or foreigners.
He had in addition said that the authorities changed into also “now no longer aware” if the households, who encroached upon the authorities land, had been homeless humans because of erosion, a declare that maximum of such sufferers commonly make.
The leader minister had stated that rights like ‘Shelter over Head’ had been to be had simplest for prison career and proper to assets isn’t always a essential proper.
