Eviction, encroachment and land problem of Assam: a concern

The land problem in Assam cannot be solved only by showing the threat of being out numbered, which indirectly indicates eviction is the only solution. Eviction can't solve the problem unless and until the root cause, i.e., excessive growth of the population of the people residing in Sar areas due to illiteracy, property, and economic conditions, is taken care of. Evicted people move after being evicted from one place to another. Thus, internal migration takes place, and the problem remains the same. Political parties get applause by carrying out eviction drives, but the actual problem remains the same. Chauvinist people become happy after they hear the news of eviction, but they don't understand that mere eviction cannot solve any human problem. Mobility can't be restricted in the case of humans. Because of eviction, internal migration takes place, and the evicted people again take shelter wherever they get a chance or in any non congested area that can be purchased at cheap rates. The fear of being outnumbered, which exists among the indigenous people, is not a matter of being surprised.

There are so many examples where migrant people have already outnumbered indigenous people. Tripura and Fiji are two vivid examples. To subdue this fear, the British probably used the line system. The Line System was a system that was introduced in Kamrup and Nagaon Districts of Assam for the first time in 1920 under which Muslim immigrants from East Bengal, now Republic Bangladesh, more particularly from Mymensingh District, were required to settle in certain areas of the Brahmaputra Valley of Assam. It was a mechanism to segregate the immigrant Bengali Muslim population from the indigenous communities of the state. In independent or free India, no such system can be introduced or implemented. So, in order to restrict internal migration, the only weapon is to reform the land law in Assam. So that agricultural and residential land owned by indigenous people can't be transferred to non-indigenous people. For that, the first definition of the indigenous people of Assam is to be ascertained. Late CPI leader Promode Gogoi propounded the idea that the entire state of Assam should be declared a tribal state. All the Assamese indigenous people, including the Brahmins, Kalita, Keot, Ahoms, Koch, Assamese, Muslims, Deshi Maria, Gauria, and Syeds, should be considered tribal. When land transfer is restricted except for industrial purposes, inter-district migration will be transformed into interstate migration, and Assam will be saved. And this is how the maximum burden on Assam should be shifted.

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