Hill settlements : the land rights movement

Assamese version available in IDRC Digital LibraryA massive eviction drive was carried out post-election (2011) in Guwahati, where tribal people continue to be divested of their customary right to forest areas for habitation, and other communities are pushed by natural disasters to migrate towards these reserved forests. Exclusionary urban planning and governance leads to different types of violence on the poor, and by the poor. This policy brief tracks how various ecological, geographical and political factors relate to land tenure and lack of basic housing, with recommendations about how to extend land rights to dwellers in ecologically vulnerable settlements