Global & Disaster Medicine» Blog Archive » Millions of Indians face eviction after the country’s supreme court ruled that indigenous people illegally living on forest land should move.

Millions of Indians face eviction after the country’s supreme court ruled that indigenous people illegally living on forest land should move.

February 25th, 2019

“……The conservation groups said state governments should see if families could prove their claim under the act and, if they could, they should be allowed to live and work on the land. If they failed to prove their claim, they should be evicted by the state government.

The supreme court has ordered the 20 state governments – where claims were considered by special committees – to act on about 1.1m claims now rejected as bogus and evict the families. Depending on the size of the families, more than 1m claims could translate to about 5-7 million people being evicted by 27 July…..”

This entry was posted on Monday, February 25th, 2019 at 4:33 am and is filed under Migration .
You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

Global & Disaster Medicine

Millions of Indians face eviction after the country’s supreme court ruled that indigenous people illegally living on forest land should move.

Categories

Recent Posts

Archives

Admin