Times of India: Gujarat: Thursday, 28th Dec 2023.
Over 1,200 Agariyas, their families and communities like the Chunvaliya Koli, Sandhi, and Miyana all belonging to the denotified tribes now face the threat of losing their livelihoods as the Gujarat forest department bars their entry into the Little Rann of Kutch. Driven to the brink, the Agariyas have said in a press release that they now contemplate a to protest before the forest department in Gandhinagar.
These landless communities depend solely on salt harvesting for their sustenance. The Agariyas harvest salt across a large land mass that spreads across four districts and seven talukas. On Wednesday several representations were made at Patan district collectorate. From September to April, the Little Rann transforms into a brine lake and Agariyas migrate and establish their temporary settlements here to harvest salt.
“We have been making repeated representations to both our MLAs as well as to forest department. However, they even refuse to give us in writing the reason for refusal of entry,” says Sultan Agariya, one of the representative.
Over 1,200 Agariyas, their families and communities like the Chunvaliya Koli, Sandhi, and Miyana all belonging to the denotified tribes now face the threat of losing their livelihoods as the Gujarat forest department bars their entry into the Little Rann of Kutch. Driven to the brink, the Agariyas have said in a press release that they now contemplate a to protest before the forest department in Gandhinagar.
These landless communities depend solely on salt harvesting for their sustenance. The Agariyas harvest salt across a large land mass that spreads across four districts and seven talukas. On Wednesday several representations were made at Patan district collectorate. From September to April, the Little Rann transforms into a brine lake and Agariyas migrate and establish their temporary settlements here to harvest salt.
“We have been making repeated representations to both our MLAs as well as to forest department. However, they even refuse to give us in writing the reason for refusal of entry,” says Sultan Agariya, one of the representative.
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