Bad precedent
Relocation measures in the Sariska Tiger Reserve in Rajasthan in the 1970s have seen people returning to forests after being relocated. "Violent' efforts of the forest department to evict people from non-revenue villages from the core area also faced opposition from the residents of the village where they were relocated. The land allotted was hilly and unsuitable for cultivation. They sold the land at low prices and returned to the forest, where the forest department declared them illegal. The department resorted to force to evict them. The prime minster-appointed Tiger Task Force in its report in 2005 pointed out that "all this irreversibly destroyed the relations between the authorities and the people and also left enough resentment and bad memories to fuel resistance to further relocation'.
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