Bhatkal: Strongly opposing the eviction of long-settled forest encroachers and other forest-dwelling families from government forest land, activists of the Forest Rights movement organised a district-level “Forest Dwellers Legal Awareness Rally” in Bhatkal. Led by Ravindra Naik, State President of the Committee for Forest Land Rights, the rally began from the Circuit House on Wednesday and proceeded up to the Mini Vidhana Soudha (Taluk Administration Building). Protesters urged the authorities not to dispossess families who have been residing on forest land for decades.

At the Mini Vidhana Soudha, a memorandum was submitted to Bhatkal Tahsildar Nagendra Kolashetty in the absence of Assistant Commissioner Kavya Rani. Speaking on the occasion, Ravindra Naik said that demanding three genera

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