Govt. affidavit before SC on encroachment irks tribal MLAs

  • 10/07/2002

  • Sentinel (Guwahati)

Cutting across party lines, all the tribal MLAs of Assam today demanded of the Assam Government to withdraw the affidavit filed by Chief Secretary P K Bora before the Supreme Court where it had been submitted that indigenous tribal people are encroaching the State's forest lands in an alarming proportion.