: Lessons for Chhattisgarh from Madhya Pradesh on how to resettle those evicted from tiger reserves #IndiaNEWS Thirty-year-old Bhagbali has vivid childhood memories of life in his village Bokrakachhar,

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Lessons for Chhattisgarh from Madhya Pradesh on how to resettle those evicted from tiger reserves #IndiaNEWS
Thirty-year-old Bhagbali has vivid childhood memories of life in his village Bokrakachhar, amidst the forests of Chhattisgarh. Reminiscing about the time before his family and many others were displaced from their village, he said, “We do not get to eat even tendu [a fruit] here. Our village had several natural fruits and herbs such as char, chironji, harra, mahua, berangi, musli and mahul. We used to eat and sell these as well. Those were happy days.�With a deep sense of sadness, Bhagbali added, “We would freely roam around the forest. Everything we owned got lost when we were displaced from our village.�Bhagbali’s family is one of the many from the Saunta tribe, that were displaced from their homes in the forests – their former home base is now a protected area, the Achanakmar Tiger Reserve. In February 2009, the government announced that Achanakmar will be designated as a tiger reserve. Ten months later, in December 2009, 38 tribal families were moved out of the reserve, overnight. They were taken to the Kondigiri panchayat, some 40-km away from their village. The displaced families were told that from then onwards they will be living in Kondigiri. They were told that they would be given agricultural...Read more

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