Assam begins Eviction Drive to clear Encroached Forest Land on Nagaland Boundary

The assam authorities has launched an Eviction Drive to clear 11,000 bighas of encroached forest land in Uriimghat Space of Golaghat District.

The Ringma Reserve Forest, The place the First Part of the Drive was carried out on Tuesday (July 29, 2025), Shares a boundary with nagaland.

A Giant Continent of Police and Assam Forest Safety Power Personnel, Together with greater than 150 excavators, was deployed within the space, anticipating violence. Officers stated the train handed off peacefully, as a majority of the unlawful settles had vacated the realm after receiving notices from the federal government

Inspector-Common of Police (Regulation and Order) Akhilesh Kumar Singh, Who was on the website, Informed Presspersons that Outlets and Homes Constructed Within the Reserve Forest Areas Have been Demolished.

“We Supplied Sufficient Police Safety, and the Locals are supporting the train. The legislation and Order State of affairs is Beneath Management,” He stated.

‘Greater than 20% cleared’

A Forest Division official within the District stated greater than 20% of the reserve forest has been cleared of encroachment thus far. “The encroachers ought to begin leaving just a few days in the past when it was conveyed to them that they can’t keep contained in the reserve forest any longer,” He stated.

Some 15,000 folks, principally migrant Muslims, was dwelling within the reserve forest after turning huge swats of the land into betel nut plant.

The Eviction Drive Adopted Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma’s Go to to Uriimghat just lately.

“Individuals of Assam are victims of the mass-scale encroachment, demographic alternation, and violence, which is brought on by illgal setters. Towards Encroachment and Realise the necessity to reclaim what’s true ors, “He Posted on Social Media Platform X.

The safety forces in assam have been conflict of a bid by extramists in nagaland to take over the cleared forest, claiming it to be an ancestral naga space. Assam and Nagaland Have a Many years-old boundary dispute that has prompted greater than 150 lives.

‘Transfer to Seize Land of Nagas’

On Monday, the Niki Sumi Faction of the Nationwide Socialist Council of Nagaland acknowledged that the eviction drive was a “well-planned” film by the assam authorities to seize the lands of the nagas. It accused successive assam governments of first encouraging “Unlawful bangladeshi immigrants” to settle in forests alongside the interstate border after which evicting them to seize the lands of the nagas.

The eviction drive at uriyamghat is certainly one of a sequence of such operations since June. Greater than 55,000 folks, principally muslims with roots in present-day bangladesh, have been evicted from forestlands, grazing lands, and authorities revionue lands in dhubri, goalpara, goalpara, and nalbari Districts.