Taking cognizance of news published in print media, the Madhya Pradesh Human Rights Commission (MPHRC) took action in Saharia tribe’s livelihood issue in Shivpuri district. The Commission sent an enquiry team to assess the livelihood problem faced by the tribe due to its displacement.
The Commission’s enquiry team collected facts in details. Then district coordinator Adim Jati Kalyan department Shivpuri also appeared before the commission and presented the detailed report of the Shivpuri Collector that also accepted that the report of the Commission is correct.
The case was of the year 2005 in that 39 Saharia triabls despite getting displaced were not getting pattas. They were de-notified from the land of the Adim Jati Kalyan department but no action was taken for allotting pattas to them. These trials were displaced from Madhav National Park Shivpuri in the year 2002 and were placed at a new place in Balarpur.
The Commission taking cognizance of the newspaper report asked the Collectror to submit his report over the issue. The Collector in lieu asked the chief conservator of forest and director of the Madhav National Park
called reviewed details of the case and based on those details sent his report to
the Commission.
The Commission in its interim recommendation in the case wrote that the officials concerned should visit every month the place where these Tribals have been placed and ensure that they gets the pattas and the Collector should ensure that the officials monthly visit should continue till they did not gets pattas. Besides, the Collector should also ensure that a medical team should also be sent to Tribals place every month to do their medical checkup.