The court told the government to evict over a million people – mostly members of indigenous tribes – from their homes in public forest land because they had not met the legal criterion to live there. With over 700 tribal groups, India is home to over 100 million indigenous people. While the forest land is legally controlled by the government, people have lived in such areas for centuries. A landmark law passed in 2006 gave legal rights over forest land and its produce to tribes and forest-dwelling communiti

Source: India orders ‘staggering’ eviction of 1 million indigenous people – Laredo Morning Times