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Subject: LS: Deforestation for Tehri Rehabilitation Opposed

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Deforestation for Tehri Rehabilitation Opposed
By Forest Dwellers
“Taungya Villagers to Save Haridwar Plantation”

Taungya plantations at Purushattam Nagar and Kamla Nagar in Haridwar
district are being clear-felled for accommodating the people displaced for
the Tehri Dam project. The Forest Corporation is entruseted with the
contract in these two villages lying in the Pathri Protected Area in
Haridwar Ranges. The Forest Department moves to allocate patta to the
outsiders have triggered the anger of the villagers who are yet to get patta
in their name, despite the fact that they have settled there and created the
plantation since 1932.The agitated villagers started Chipko movement from
15th October 2001.

A team of Central and State level Forest and Rehabilitation Department staff
have already visited the area last month. They also “figured out” that
already the plantation in the area is in “a bad shape”, due to the clear
felling that occurred three times in the name of rehabilitating the
displaced people from Rajaji National Park, Tehri Dam Project Area and the
flood affected people of Mujaffarnagar. Teams on behalf of the National
Forum for Forest People and Forest Workers (NFFPFW), Ghatksetra Majdoor
Samiti – Haridwar, Ghatksetra majdoor Morcha – Saharanpur and Uttarakhand
Mahila Manch have visited the area and extended their solidarity towards the
movement. Other organisations are also likely to join in solidarity.

(From: April – October 2001 issue of NFFPFW Newsletter)

Soumitra Ghosh of NFFPFW, who visited the area in early December, told me on
December 4, 2001 that:
· Since about 1986, some 200 displaced families, mostly from Tehri and some
Gujjars have been staying at these sites, but none of them is using the land
as the land has been grabbed by local landlords, farm houses.
· The sites mentioned above are about 15 kms away from Haridwar.
· MEF has given clearance for clear felling over a large area of upto 10000
ha. Lakhs of trees are to be cut.
· The main reason for Tangya opposition is that they who have been staying
here since 1930s, who have really raised the forests, have no right over it.
· The sit in demonstration by the Tangyas continues indefinitely.
· Soumitra has some video footage of interviews of some of the local people.

SANDRP
December 5, 2001





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