Dibrugarh: Lakhimpur district administration on Friday evicted 132 families from around 320 hectares of Professional Grazing Reserve (PGR) land at Boginadi.The operation, conducted under Kadam Revenue Circle, covered the No. 1 and No. 2 Boginadi PGR areas. District commissioner Pronab Jit Kakoty and senior superintendent of police Gunendra Deka supervised the drive, which was carried out under heavy police deployment.The administration said the affected families comprised around 704 people. Several families had dismantled parts of their houses and removed construction material after receiving eviction notices. Heavy machinery was used to demolish the remaining structures.The operation ended peacefully without resistance or untoward incidents, the administration said.“Most of the families had dismantled substantial portions of their houses themselves after receiving prior notices. The administration subsequently removed the remaining structures. The entire operation proceeded peacefully, and we did not encounter any resistance or obstruction,” Kakoty said.He said demolishing concrete structures took additional time; however, the operation was completed within the scheduled period.Deka said the eviction was necessary as PGR land was reserved for a specific public purpose and could not be occupied for residential use.“We are conducting surveys and will continue taking systematic steps to clear encroachments from reserved govt land across Lakhimpur district,” Deka added.The administration said the drive was carried out under the Assam Land and Revenue Regulation, 1886, and followed notices issued several weeks earlier. It is part of a wider exercise to clear encroachments from reserved govt land, including Village Grazing Reserves and PGRs.
