Overview

• Eviction drives in Uriamghat cleared 10,000 bighas on July 31, raising Assam’s total reclaimed government and forest land to 1.39 lakh bighas with support from Nagaland and the CRPF
• Over 500 indigenous families in Kamrup’s Garal, Mirzapur and Azara villages received eviction notices for the state’s acquisition of roughly 500 bighas near Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport
• Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma emphasized that the Assam government—not the Adani Group—is procuring the airport-adjacent land to build a state-run stadium, convention centre and entertainment zone
• All deputy commissioners have been directed to survey forest lands under the Assam Forest Regulation, with evictions of non-indigenous occupants expected to span up to ten years
• Rehabilitation plans include granting land pattas to eligible indigenous forest dwellers under Mission Basundhara III and leasing cleared government lands at nominal rates to cooperative farming groups