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Tribal communities successful respective villages successful Nagarahole person passed resolutions opposing relocation of forest-dwelling communities nether the pretext of rehabilitation.
They person besides opposed probe oregon commercialized enactment without their consent and reiterated that immoderate inaugural connected their ‘’traditional lands’’ should beryllium undertaken lone with the anterior support of the gram sabhas arsenic mandated by law.
These and different resolutions were passed during the ongoing consciousness march connected the implementation of provisions of the Forest Rights Act (FRA) 2006. It is being held crossed tribal hamlets successful Nagarahole.
The march, which began connected December 21 and has covered astir 70 km, entered its 10th time connected December 30. It is an inaugural of the members of Nagarahole Adivasi Jamma Paale Hakku Sthapana Samiti (NAJHSS).
Flagged disconnected from Thitimathi Aiyrasuli colony successful Kodagu district, the march traversed done the villages of Nalleri wood portion and reached Bavali successful H.D. Kote taluk of Mysuru district. NAJHSS members said they covered gross villages inhabited by members of the Jenu Kuruba, Beta Kuruba, Yerava and Paniya communities.
As portion of the campaign, gram sabhas are being convened on the way to sermon provisions of the Forest Rights Act and issues related to its non-implementation successful areas falling wrong the Nagarahole Tiger Reserve.
Meetings person been held with villagers, who discussed delays and rejections successful the designation of idiosyncratic and assemblage wood rights nether the FRA. NAJHSS representatives besides stated that gram sabhas successful astatine slightest 18 villages person expressed enactment for the march truthful far.
Each day, participants locomotion 7 to 10 km and sojourn 2 to 3 villages, wherever discussions are held with elders, younker and section leaders connected the relation of gram sabhas nether the Forest Rights Act.
Issues raised during the meetings see the process followed successful declaring protected areas, the presumption of assemblage wood assets rights successful notified nationalist parkland and tiger reserve areas, and the pending designation of situation rights of the jenu kuruba community, which is classified arsenic a Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Group (PVTG).
The consciousness march is scheduled to reason connected January 1, 2026, by erstwhile it volition person covered astir 29 villages successful the Nagarahole region.
On January 2, 2026, which marks the 20th day of the enactment of the FRA 2006, NAJHSS plans to organise a protestation astatine Kerehadi colony adjacent the Nagarahole Udburu Gate successful H.D. Kote taluk.
‘We expect enactment from implicit 50 villages, including those from Periyapatna taluk,’’ said J.K. Thimma and P.C. Ramu, members of NAJHSS.
