Kuno Palpur Wildlife Sanctuary
has displaced 28 villages, comprising of 1650 families, mainly hunters,
gatherers and subsistence cultivators have been subjected to a sudden and
poorly planned shift to agriculture-based livelihoods in a drought-prone and
highly degraded landscape. Loss of forest-based livelihood has not been
compensated adequately through the development of alternative, non-farm employment,
and livelihood options. As a result of the inadequacy of the relocation package and
gaps in implementation, the largely self-sufficient forest-based livelihoods of
the Sahariya have been given to precarious, mainly wage-based, food-insecure
and vulnerable livelihoods…
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