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An eviction thrust was launched successful Assam's Nagaon district connected Saturday (November 29, 2025) to wide encroachment from 795 hectare of reserved wood land, wherever astir 1,500 families lived, officials said.
The thrust was started successful the Lutimari country successful the greeting amid dense deployment of security, they said.
Notices were issued to the encroachers 3 months ago, asking them to vacate wrong 2 months. They had requested an further period to vacate, and the territory medication agreed to it, an authoritative said.
Over 1,100 families, surviving successful some pucca and kuccha houses, person already near with their belongings, dismantling the illegally-built structures, helium said.
The remaining houses are being demolished successful the drive, helium added.
Some residents claimed that they had been surviving successful the country for implicit 40 years and were unaware that it was wood land.
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma had earlier claimed that implicit 160 sq km of onshore had been cleared of encroachment since helium took implicit successful May 2021.
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More than 50,000 radical person been evicted arsenic a effect of specified anti-encroachment drives, according to him.
After a little pause, the drives resumed from June 16, with much than 5,000 families evicted since then.
Most of the displaced radical are from the Bengali-speaking Muslim community, who assertion that their ancestors had settled successful the areas wherever the eviction drives are being carried out, aft their onshore successful the 'char' oregon riverine areas was washed distant owed to erosion by the Brahmaputra.
