Dholpur (DARRANG): Around 400 farmer families, whose homes have not been returned, have provided protection to more than 700 villagers who have evicted who have to empty their homes in two rounds of expulsion this week.
Some encroachment was pushed into a ravine due to erosion years ago.
Some of them were evicted this week had begun to pack their belongings to shift to their relatives or land they had purchased outside Dholpur.
“I have a biga or more from the ground here where I grow winter plants.
But with some families evicted to take refuge here, I don’t know when I will be able to plant my land,” Wondered Saber Ali, a farmer.
The only land of Bigha in the ‘ownership’ of his family is not enough to support them throughout the year, especially because this is a flood-prone area.
The sixty-year-old saber must work as a wage worker sometimes to meet family needs.
If the government does not find an alternative place for these evictes, which is more than 1,000 in number, the possibility of total chaos in this pandemic situation.
While physical distance has been thrown because people have packed the emergency huts, they have drunk water from the Brahmaputra.
But those who are on the edge of the Brahmaputra help them run their kitchen in an open place by offering quota.
“We packed chicken in a bamboo box but someone grabbed it from us.
We crossed the river with an empty stomach.
Leave the grasslands, people couldn’t save cash obtained with difficulty.
They burned,” said the farmers who were evicted, Ahmad Ali.
Habibur Rahman, a youth activist from Nishalmara Village nearby, said on the first day of eviction on Monday, 800 families were discarded, while on Thursday, 246 families were expelled.
Family, who did not face the bulldozer, continued their agriculture with fear in their hearts.
“This area may be fertile but cultivation is a challenge.
During the rainy season, most of the dholpur remains underwater.
This season we take burlap cultivation.
It won’t easily use Dholpur for farming without expertise,” said Umar Ali, a local village resident.