What began as allegations of encroachment and forest violation by the Shri Paramhans Ashram in 2017 has now snowballed into a complicated dispute over forest rights on the outskirts of Madhya Pradesh’s Madhav National Park. Here, Abhinay Lakshman finds that a particularly vulnerable tribal group fights to construct government-sanctioned PM-AWAS housing on land for which they hold forest rights titles
What began as allegations of encroachment and forest violation by the Shri Paramhans Ashram in 2017 has now snowballed into a complicated dispute over forest rights on the outskirts of Madhya Pradesh’s Madhav National Park. Here, Abhinay Lakshman finds that a particularly vulnerable tribal group fights to construct government-sanctioned PM-AWAS housing on land for which they hold forest rights titles