Encroached land in Assam more than size of Goa, says CM
The Hindu
Sipajhar violence was a result of instigation, Sarma says
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said the total area under encroachment in Assam is more than the size of Goa.
He also said the State government has evidence of members the Popular Front of India (PFI) and some individuals, including a college lecturer in Assam, instigating the people where an on September 23. Two persons died in the operation.
“We have evidence that a few elements collected ₹28 lakh from the poor, landless families of Darrang district in the last three months, promising them that they would convince the government against eviction,” Dr. Sarma told journalists on Saturday.
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When fed into Latin, pusilla comes out denoting “very small”. The Baillon’s crake can be missed in the field, when it is at a distance, as the magnification of the human eye is woefully short of what it takes to pick up this tiny creature. The other factor is the Baillon’s crake’s predisposition to present less of itself: it moves about furtively and slides into the reeds at the slightest suspicion of being noticed. But if you are keen on observing the Baillon’s crake or the ruddy breasted crake in the field, in Chennai, this would be the best time to put in efforts towards that end. These birds live amidst reeds, the bulrushes, which are likely to lose their density now as they would shrivel and go brown, leaving wide gaps, thereby reducing the cover for these tiddly birds to stay inscrutable.