Recently the Forest Department started the drive to evict Schedule Tribes and other Traditional Forest Dwellers from forest land under the garb of HP High court order and particularly in Forest Division Banjar, Kullu and Parvati. Huge number of them belongs to Schedule Castes (SC) and had been evicted or had been ordered to evict them form forest land without following the procedure of verification and recognition of rights under the Forest Rights Act (FRA). These all SC families are having very less land holding with them and have constructed their residential houses, cow shed and toilet since last thirty years on forest land and have been cultivating small patches of forest land for their livelihood needs since decades.
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