Bureau Report, Nagaon, December 19: District administration in association with the district police administration today carried out an eviction drive against illegal encroachment of government land here at the greater Batadrova Mouza under Dhing revenue circle in the district since this morning. The eviction drive was reportedly carried out quite peacefully as per schedule set by the administration concerned respectively at Batadrova Santijan bazar, Haidubi agriculture seed farm, Jamaibasti, Lalungaon pothar and cleared several hundreds bighas of land encroached for over years by some people of a special community, sources said. Sources claimed that the administration deployed over one thousand paramilitary forces as well as police personnel and also used 10 buldozers , 2 excavators during the peaceful eviction drive today. No incidents of scuffle or any untoward incidents have been reported till the time of filing this report, sources added. The drive was reportedly spearheaded by Narendra Kr Shah, Deputy Commissioner, Nagaon, Saityaraj Hazarika, DIG, Middle Assam Range and Leena Doley, Superintendent of Police, Nagaon. Speaking to this correspondent late this afternoon here, Deputy Commissioner, Narendra Kr Shah said that more than 300 families had illegally encroached as well as occupied the government land and erected houses there and the authority concerned of the revenue circle issued official notification to vacate the land beforehand. Among these illegal encroachers, the major portion of them abided by the administration and vacated the land automatically by shifting themselves away at some places. Only 75 families who are reluctant to vacate the land and are camping there till today, he said, adding that they were also evicted from the site quite peacefully during the day. He said that the details of the eviction drive would be briefed to the media persons soon. On the other hand, while addressing some media persons here, some people who are evicted by administration today said that they would stay there only by erecting temporary tents as they had left no option for additional settlements anywhere.
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