Project Tiger will displace 5.5 lakh tribals: report
- Project Tiger will displace at least 5.5 lakh Scheduled Tribes and other forest dwellers, a report released by a New Delhi-based rights group on Global Tiger Day on Monday said.
Highlights:
- The number of people displaced from 50 tiger reserves before 2021 was 2,54,794, which worked out to about 5,000 per protected area.
- The average number of people to be displaced from six tiger reserves since 2021 is 48,333, a 967% increase in displacement over the pre-2021 period, the report titled “India’s Tiger Reserves: Tribals Get Out, Tourists Welcome” said.
- According to the report by the Rights and Risks Analysis Group, some 1,60,000 people out of about 2,90,000 people to be displaced in the post-2021 period would be from the Kumbhalgarh Wildlife Sanctuary in Rajasthan, followed by 72,772 people from the Nauradehi Wildlife Sanctuary in Madhya Pradesh, and 45,000 from the Ranipur Tiger Reserve in Uttar Pradesh.
- The report also highlighted forced evictions through massive human rights violations.
Prelims Takeaway:
- FRA, 2006
- Project Tiger