Deadline set for rehab of Assam national park dwellers
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Rsidents of forest villages in Dibru-Saikhowa National Park have allegedly been denied entry to govt. schemes since 1986
Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal has requested the State’s Forest and Revenue departments to completely rehabilitate the indigenous forest dwellers of the Dibru-Saikhowa National Park inside January 31.
Rehabilitation of some 10,000 folks of Laika and Dodhia villages has been hanging fireplace since 1999, when the Dibru-Saikhowa Wildlife Sanctuary was upgraded to a national park. The park, house to a couple wild horses, had been in focus since May 27 when a blowout at an Oil India Limited gasoline properly within the neighborhood posed an ecological menace.
On Wednesday, Mr. Sonowal met leaders of the Takam Mising Porin Kebang (TMPK) and a few representatives of the villagers who’ve been demanding correct rehabilitation since December 21. The affected folks belong to the Mising group.
At least one member of some 1,480 households — the federal government determine is 1,455 — has been tenting outdoors the workplace of the Deputy Commissioner of Tinsukia district, about 12 km from the park.
“We have been tasked with finding a logical and permanent solution to the problem of rehabilitation of the families residing in Laika and Dodhia for necessary action by January 31,” stated Environment and Forest Minister Parimal Suklabaidya, who heads the 10-member committee that Mr. Sonowal constituted for the aim.
Squatters not transferring
“We hope the government keeps its promise on rehabilitation. But till the final solution is arrived at, the villagers camping in Tinsukia [district headquarters] have decided not to move from where they are,” native chief of the TMPK Ajay Doley instructed The Hindu.
One of the explanations was the demise of a camper, a 50-year-old girl named Rebati Pegu, on Tuesday evening. Three different girls are in a critical situation with the native authorities not taking any initiative to supply medical care, the protesters stated.
“A bone of contention has been the government’s move to shift the Dodhia residents to Lakhimpur district across the Brahmaputra while keeping the 572 families of Laika somewhere else in Tinsukia district,” Mr. Doley stated.
According to the TMPK, the forest dwellers of the 425-sq. km. Dibru-Saikhowa National Park have been denied entry to authorities schemes since 1986 although a notification that yr allowed them to proceed staying till their shifting to an appropriate place.
The organisation stated the villagers’ issues began when 765 sq. km. round their habitations was declared a biosphere reserve in 1997, limiting the entry of the forest to the group. The hardship compounded in 1999 when the national park got here into existence.