The Assam government on Tuesday increased tension, as the Assam government excluded one of its greatest expulsion, which was displacing about 1,400 families from 3,500 bighas (over 450 hectares) in Dhubri district to make way for a proposed thermal power project.
Bedkhali Drive, Chaubakhara, Santoshpur and Chirakuta were done in three revenue villages of PT. 1, Tuesday morning started. The violence erupted around the afternoon when the residents started drinking stones and bricks on a bulldozer, inspiring them to resort to the charge to disperse. According to officials, two pieces of equipment were damaged.
Shivasagar MLA and Rizor Party leader Akhil Gogoi also visited the site, but was detained by the police and was removed. Calling eviction as illegal and unconstitutional, Gogoi said, “This is nothing but the bullying of the minorities. I clearly said that the affected people should be given a lot of compensation.”
These 3,500 bighas of government land in Dhubri district have been occupied mainly by Bengali -speaking Muslims, and the district administration estimates that about 1,700 structures are built on where 1,400 families live.
Dhubari DC Dibakar Nath said, “This is a special land that has been allocated to APDCL (Assam Power Distribution Company Limited) for thermal power plant, and they will tenders for the project.”
This is the fourth such drive done by the Government of Assam in the last month, which leads to the same eviction in Golpara, Nalbari and Lakhimpur. More than 2,300 families have been displaced. (Express photo)
Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma visited these sites last month and announced that the land was kept as the site of the proposed 3,200 MW thermal power plant, a project for which the state government is interacting with the Adani Group. In April this year, Sarma did a thermal power plant to “finalize the major Adani projects in Assam” from Jit Adani in Guwahati.
This is the fourth such drive done by the Government of Assam in the last month, which leads to the same eviction in Golpara, Nalbari and Lakhimpur. More than 2,300 families have been displaced.
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Zakir Hussain (39) is one of the few residents of Charuabakra, who stayed in his house through eviction. “Since we have a lease (land right) in the village, the Circle Officer told us that we will be given land elsewhere. So we are catching tightly and waiting to tell us where we will be given some land. We have been given time to leave till July 15,” he said that his family had gone to the village about 40 years ago, when we were displaced from the banks of the river.
His family is one of the 197 pattadars known by the district administration among those living in these villages.
“In the case of these people, the land will be acquired, and they will be given land or money. The rest are going to encroach; they have been given Rs 50,000 per Gratia per family, mostly to assist them in transport.
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