Jharkhand Village Puts Signage Restricting Entry Of Forest Officials
NDTV
The signage was put up at Jitratungri village in the Mandu forest range by two village committees-Van Akhikar Samiti and Van Palan Samiti-in Ramgarh district.
Forest dwellers in a village in Jharkhand's Ramgarh district have put up signage asking forest officials to enter the village after getting consent from gram sabha, an official said on Friday.
The signage was put up at Jitratungri village in the Mandu forest range by two village committees-Van Akhikar Samiti and Van Palan Samiti-in Ramgarh district. The signage displayed various rights given to local tribals in the forest.
A team of forest officials visited the village to carry out a plantation drive on 30 hectares of land in the forest range under Ichakdih panchayat on Thursday. The villagers allegedly took a forester hostage and he was released after a dialogue with senior forest officials, he said.