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In Madhav National Park, displaced families still await land allotment
Thirty-nine Sahariya families displaced from Madhav National Park continued waiting for agricultural land promised two decades earlier. Park authorities said suitable denotified land was unavailable, even as other compensated families continued farming and encroaching on the proposed tiger corridor.
The displaced families staged a protest at the Shivpuri Collectorate. Abhay Jain challenged the administration’s claim that they were ineligible for rehabilitation and pointed to a 2017 human-rights commission direction requiring speedy action. The report also links the absence of land and livelihoods to dangerous quarry work and deaths from respiratory disease.
In Madhav National Park, displaced families still await land allotment
Thirty-nine Sahariya families displaced from Madhav National Park continued waiting for agricultural land promised two decades earlier. Park authorities said suitable denotified land was unavailable, even as other compensated families continued farming and encroaching on the proposed tiger corridor.
The displaced families staged a protest at the Shivpuri Collectorate. Abhay Jain challenged the administration’s claim that they were ineligible for rehabilitation and pointed to a 2017 human-rights commission direction requiring speedy action. The report also links the absence of land and livelihoods to dangerous quarry work and deaths from respiratory disease.
In Madhav National Park, displaced families still await land allotment
Thirty-nine Sahariya families displaced from Madhav National Park continued waiting for agricultural land promised two decades earlier. Park authorities said suitable denotified land was unavailable, even as other compensated families continued farming and encroaching on the proposed tiger corridor.
The displaced families staged a protest at the Shivpuri Collectorate. Abhay Jain challenged the administration’s claim that they were ineligible for rehabilitation and pointed to a 2017 human-rights commission direction requiring speedy action. The report also links the absence of land and livelihoods to dangerous quarry work and deaths from respiratory disease.
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