Continuing its encroachment eviction drive the Forest Department on Friday recovered 15 acres of forest land at the Jarakabande Kaval Sandalwood Reserve Forest. Around 15 acres of land on survey numbers 18 and 19 at the Jarakabande Kaval Sandalwood Reserve Forest has been recovered.
This is the second encroachment clearance operation carried out by the department following Environment Minister Eshwar Khandre’s direction to recover encroached forest land in and around Bengaluru.
According to the Minister’s office in 2017, it was decided that the said land belongs to the Forest Department.