Assam: Laika-Dodhia Rehabilitation Committee welcomes govt decision to rehabilitate 12,000 people
The communities have been living at Dibru-Saikhowa National Park since then, eagerly waiting for the rehabilitation in Dibrugarh and Tinsukia after the government arrived at a consensus.
By Avik Chakraborty
DIBRUGARH:
The Laika-Dodhia Rehabilitation Committee (LDRC) welcomed the decision of the government to rehabilitate about 12,000 people from the two villages displaced due to changes in course of the Brahmaputra river.
The communities have been living at Dibru-Saikhowa National Park since then, eagerly waiting for the rehabilitation in Dibrugarh and Tinsukia after the government arrived at a consensus.
The decision to rehabilitate the displaced community was taken after a meeting held in Guwahati, and the forest department will soon issue a notification on the same.
The government has proposed Lakhimpur’s Adhkhona-Adielani area under the Harmoti range for the rehabilitation of the people from the two villages, which the communities have not agreed to, informed Apio Taid, a member of Laika and Dodhia Rehabilitation Committee.
"The people of Dodhia do not want to go to Lakhimpur's Adhkhona. They want a place in Dibrugarh and Tinsukia. We are hopeful that after another meeting with district administration, the matter will be sorted out," added Taid.
The matter was taken up during a high-level meeting where issues related to Forest Rights Act, 2006 were discussed.
Notably, the two villages located inside the Dibru-Saikhowa National Park have been the settlement of families displaced by the great earthquake of 1950.
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