Overview

• Phase I of the Uriamghat eviction drive reclaimed over 1,200 hectares in the Rengma Reserve Forest and displaced nearly 2,000 alleged encroaching families.
• The state deployed roughly 700 to 800 personnel from Assam Police, CRPF and the forest department supported by bulldozers and excavators.
• Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma urged locals not to provide shelter to evicted individuals to prevent reoccupation of cleared lands.
• Civil society vigilante groups in Sivasagar have begun door-to-door checks to identify and expel suspected illegal settlers.
• Three Naga village councils issued public claims on parts of Negheribil ahead of the August 8 eviction drive, prompting Assam legislators to reaffirm Supreme Court–protected jurisdiction.