The Forest Department with cooperation from the district administration and police, today resumed the eviction drive in the Batahghuli forest area in the outskirts of Assam from early this morning and official sources asserted that the drive would continue in the next few days. Sources said that about 6,000 hectares of forest land in the Batahghuli area was under encroachment and it would take at least two more days to evict all the encroachers as per the Supreme Court directives of evicting the encroachers from the forest areas.