Question
Describe how the land is taken away forcefully from Adivasis without following procedures.
Solution
Powerful forces have colluded to take over tribal land forcefully without following the procedures:
(i)According to official figures, more than 50 per cent of persons displaced due to mines and mining projects are tribals.
(ii)Another recent survey report by organisations working among Adivasis shows that 79 per cent of the persons displaced from the states of Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Orissa and Jharkhand are tribals. Huge tracts of their lands have also gone under the waters of hundreds of dams that have been built in independent India.
(iii)In the North east, their lands remain highly militarised and war-torn. India has 54 national parks and 372 wildlife sanctuaries covering 1,09,652 sq km. These are areas where tribals originally lived but were evicted from. When they continue to stay in these forests, they are termed encroachers.
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