Guwahati, Feb 1: The Assam government on Friday decided to denotify three proposed reserve forests (PRF) in Tinsukia district for enabling over 20,000 residents to get land rights, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said.
In a Cabinet meeting, chaired by Sarma, the state government approved transforming the PRF into revenue villages so that people living in the area can get land rights.
“There are three Proposed Reserve Forests in Tinsukia. We have decided to denotify and make them revenue villages. This will help the people living there to get land rights,” he said at a late-night press conference here.
The three PRFs are Talpathar (170 hectares), Mohongpathar (466 hectares) and 1st Addition to Duarmarah (113 hectares).
