Archive · 28 Jul 2025
Uriamghat Forest: Eviction Drive Scheduled Amidst Security Buildup
The government is removing people who are living illegally in a protected forest in Assam.
This is happening in the Rengma Forest Reserve.
Lots of police and machinery have been brought in to help.
The goal is to clear the land of people who shouldn't be there.
Local groups want to make sure everyone leaves and doesn't come back.
If the plan works, a large area of forest land will be cleared.
Eviction drive planned in Rengma Forest Reserve, Uriamghat.
700-800 police personnel and heavy machinery deployed.
Operation aims to remove alleged encroachers from protected forest land.
Local groups urge complete eviction, preventing re-entry.
Expected to free 11,000 bighas of forest land if successful.
- Who
- Government and alleged encroachers.
- What
- Eviction of alleged encroachers.
- When
- July 29 (planned).
- Where
- Rengma Forest Reserve, Uriamghat, Assam.
- Why
- To reclaim forest and government land from illegal occupation.
Alleged Encroachers
State Government and AASU
Land Ownership
Alleged Encroachers
Displacement and loss of land.
State Government and AASU
Government's right to reclaim forest land.
- Location
- Rengma Forest Reserve, Uriamghat
- District
- Golaghat
- Personnel Deployed
- 700-800 police
- Machinery
- Bulldozers and excavators
- Land Area
- 11,000 bighas (expected to be freed)