Members of the Sanauli gram sabha show the woods chopped down by the Chattisgarh Van Vikas Nigam Credit: Shruti Agarwal A small Gond village in Rajnandgoan district of Chhattisgarh has been giving the state’s forest development corporation, also known as the Chhattisgarh Rajya Van Vikas Nigam, sleepless nights since the end of December, 2015. The nigam was carrying out its practice of “thinning” inside the forests adjacent to the village, Sanauli, when a massive resistance led by the women of the village against the nigam’s operations started. The village confiscated the felling tools of labour hired for the job and demanded the complete exit of the corporation from the forest.

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