The core area shows the road in Odisha. | PHOTO CREDIT: BISWARANJAN ROUTE
The Ministry of the Environment, Forests and Climate Changes ordered the probe into the accusation that the Ministry of ODISha Forest fraudulently received the consent of villagers to move from the main areas of Similipal Tiger Reserve (p.).
The probe began after the representations of the population of Baku Village in the Mayurbhanj district and argued that the Similipal Tiger Reserve was using illegal means to obtain forests and relocate villages from Tiger Reserve.
“We are presenting our serious concerns and looking for immediate intervention under the law: The Offices are trying to move us secret attempts to move us without the prior informed consent of our gram Sabha, which equals the eye violations of sections 4 (1) ((2)), 4 (5) (5) and 7 planned tribes and other traditional forest acts. (v.) (in § 5 (v.), honor, (p) (in § 5 (v.) (V.), honor, (p) (in § 5 (v.), read) (in § 5 (v.) (p) (in § 5 (v. point (g) of the SC&D Act of 1989, ”says Baku Sabha by a letter to the Ministry.
Forest departure
The inhabitants also said: “We were aware that Str’s authorities were planning to move us out of the village of Baku and move us to” Land Bank “, which was designed for created through the forest in the village of Pahadpur in Baunsanali Gram Panchayat, Jashipur Block.”
“We learned that an online proposal was submitted to a departure of 21.659 hectares of forest land, where it was deputy director, Similipal North Wildlife Division invented several documents and reality,” they said.
In the villagers of Baku against the relocation from ST, they demanded that the Ministry of MoEF and climate change refuse IT stadium permission to move the land to move.
Published – September 2025 21:50
