Uttarakhand: Stampede due to police verification drive, administration strict on illegal occupants
Along with the Uttarakhand government’s anti-encroachment campaign, the police has also started the work of verification of outsiders strictly. Along with this, the work of verification of Aadhaar card, Voter ID, Ration card has been started.
Concerned over the growing Muslim population in Uttarakhand, the Uttarakhand government has started a campaign to remove encroachments. After receiving intelligence, the forest department has started taking strict action to evict people living on the banks of rivers and illegally occupying government lands. The mining work in the rivers stops in the rainy season. As soon as this work stopped on June 1. The forest department, after making an announcement, asked the people to remove their huts and belongings and started its action the next day. According to the information, a large number of people were living on the banks of the river by illegally occupying the lands. Irrigation along with Forest Department,
The PWD department has also started removing illegal encroachments. On the other hand, after collecting their information, the police has given an ultimatum to bring outsiders to get their verification done. These people will bring their own verification from the nearest police station of their village. The police team is doing the work of verification of the people by roaming from street to street. DGP Ashok Kumar has directed the SSPs of all the districts to record every information for verification by keeping a register in the police station. Its data will be prepared later.
In the next phase, the Uttarakhand government has directed to conduct verification campaign of Voter ID, Aadhaar card and also verification of ration cards. Such information has come to the notice that a large number of people from UP are getting free treatment in government hospitals, AIIMS etc. by making Ayushman cards of Uttarakhand with fake Aadhaar cards. Along with taking other government facilities. According to the information, the document verification campaign is being run at the micro level in the four plain districts of Haridwar, Nainital, Udham Singh Nagar and Haridwar district.
According to IG Kumaon Dr. Nilesh Bharne, not only police verification but also other documents will be verified and legal action will be taken if manipulation is found in them. IG Bharne told that we are also checking the public service centers to see if they are making any fake documents. We have also fixed criteria for the verification of tenants.
Due to the sudden strictness of the police in the state, many outsiders are seen packing their sacks and beds. Workers are going towards their homes from the banks of the rivers because on the one hand they are afraid of the police, on the other hand the fear of the bulldozers of the forest department is haunting them.
According to Nodal Officer Dr. Parag Dhakate, so far 2100 acres of forest and river land has been freed from illegal encroachment, this campaign will continue. Chief Minister Pushkar Dhami has also told the media in Haldwani that the campaign against the encroachers will continue. The government will not tolerate the change in the demography of Uttarakhand due to encroachment.
