Overview
- Authorities completed the operation on January 6 after starting January 5 across encroached tracts in Sonitpur and Nagaon districts.
- The administration deployed 36 excavators, 60 tractors and roughly 300 security personnel to remove dwellings and cultivation from the sanctuary.
- Officials reported initial resistance that was brought under control, and police said the clearance concluded without any untoward incident.
- Notices to vacate were issued nearly a month earlier, requests to delay for winter harvests were rejected, and most residents dismantled homes themselves.
- Some evicted families alleged local officials earlier enabled reoccupation in exchange for money, a claim the administration has not addressed.