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Demand for rehabilitation of erosion-hit families

By Staff correspondent

DIBRUGARH, July 25 � A conglomerate body of some 12 organisations have called upon the State Government to immediatetly rehabilitate the erosion-hit and displaced families of Kasuoni, Garpara and Rohmoria line in the district.

About 51 families moved to the three camps in the village recently for shelter after their homes and land were washed away by the Brahmaputra. Unabated erosion by the river is continuing to swallow vast areas of earth, particularly in these areas, besides Nagaghuli.

The organisations which included Rohmoria Erosion Resistance Struggle Forum, All Assam Students� Union, Assam Jatiyatabadi Yuba Chatra Parishad, All Assam Mottock Yuba Chatra Sanmilan, All Assam Tai Ahom Students Union, Assam Tea Tribes Students� Association, Gorkha Students� Union, Sonowal Kachari Students� Union, Sanmilito Jatiyo Mancha and Assam Jatiyatabadi Yuva Parishad, etc. during a meeting at Saharia Hall here criticised the Government jointly for failing to protect the life and property of the people. The leaders of the organisations demanded immediate and permanent solution to the aggravating erosion problem, failing which the organisations threatened to put up a joint agitation.

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