Overview

• Officials report that more than 20% of the 11,000 bighas targeted in the Rengma Reserve Forest has been cleared.
• About 70–80% of the roughly 2,000 affected families vacated voluntarily after seven-day eviction notices.
• The eviction drive is supported by 700–800 Assam Police, CRPF and forest department personnel and over 150 excavators.
• Authorities divided the reserve forest into nine zones after surveys of 30 villages to guide eviction and demolition efforts.
• The operation follows high court directives and builds on four years of statewide campaigns that cleared 1.29 lakh bighas of encroached land.