{"id":224810,"date":"2023-09-25T00:04:13","date_gmt":"2023-09-24T18:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=224810"},"modified":"2023-09-25T00:04:13","modified_gmt":"2023-09-24T18:34:13","slug":"assam-govt-conducts-eviction-drive-at-chirang-reserve-forest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2023\/09\/25\/assam-govt-conducts-eviction-drive-at-chirang-reserve-forest\/","title":{"rendered":"Assam govt conducts eviction drive at Chirang Reserve Forest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kokrajhar (Assam), Sep 24 (PTI) The Assam government has carried out an eviction drive to clear the Chirang Reserve Forest from encroachment, an official said.<br \/>\nA senior Forest Department official said the eviction exercise took place at Laokriguri village under Runikhata range in Chirang district on Saturday to clear 75 hectares of land.<br \/>\n&#8220;These encroachers were mostly from the Bodo community and stayed in nearby villages. They deforested a huge area and started a rubber plantation with the help of two brokers. We have arrested these two culprits,&#8221; Divisional Forest Officer (DFO) B N Patiri said.<br \/>\nA police complaint was lodged and the area was cleared, he said.<br \/>\n&#8220;There were 25 families that erected temporary houses about a month ago and cut many valuable trees of the jungle to start a rubber plantation. We have come to know that the Rubber Board&#8217;s Kajalgaon branch financed the plantation. We are investigating the matter,&#8221; Patiri said.<br \/>\nHe added that 61,000 saplings had been planted in the 75 hectares in association with the Army.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kokrajhar (Assam), Sep 24 (PTI) The Assam government has carried out an eviction drive to clear the Chirang Reserve Forest from encroachment, an official said. A senior Forest Department official said the eviction exercise took place at Laokriguri village under Runikhata range in Chirang district on Saturday to clear 75 hectares of land. &#8220;These encroachers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-224810","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-north-east"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}