Chunks of Intanki National Park in Nagaland are sold for Rs 2,500 a hectare as the forest department looks on. Read this Down To Earth Report on encroachers’ settlements in this national park.
In the eye of the storm
Forest and environment minister Jairam Ramesh has never had his plate so full. On his visit to Assam, the minister literally tore his hair at the adamant stance of anti-dam activists who would not let him get in a word edgeways.
KOHIMA, Oct 7: The NSCN-K has been irked by the alleged threat to the Intanki Reserve Forest because of the flooding of Nagas from Manipur into the reserve forest in Nagaland in the last 10 years.
KOHIMA, June 19: Nagaland Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio has convened a meeting tomorrow to discuss the matter of encroachment inside the Intangki National Park.
KOHIMA, June 18: Nagaland Forest and Environment Minister M C Konyak today decried the eviction of Inavi village carried out by NSCN-IM inside Intangki National Park without the knowledge of the Forest Department and appealed to all encroachers to voluntarily vacate the National Park area.
