The Supreme Court (SC) of India has directed 16 states to evict all Scheduled Tribe members and other traditional forest-dwellers before July 27, whose claims were rejected under the Forest Right Act, 2006 (FRA).
The order could force more than a million forest-dwelling people out of their homes, making it the biggest mass eviction for conservation ever proposed in India, say several tribal activists and human-rights-based civil societies.
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