Jharkhand: Police Atrocities On Adivasis Of Saranda Forest - A Fact Sheet

Jharkhand: Police Atrocities On Adivasis Of Saranda Forest - A Fact Sheet   The ‘Saranda’ literally means a forest of seven hundred small hills is also known as the largest Sal Forest in Asia, situated in West Singhbhum district of Jharkhand. Approximately, 10,000 Adivasi families with the population of 1 lakh 25 thousand Adivasis live in the forest. The Adivasis depend on agriculture, forest produces and livestock for their livelihood. The forest is full of Iron-Ore therefore; there was...

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