Here, houses are custom-made, catering to the fruit trade, featuring a garment, a storeroom full of crates for transporting fruits and makeft structures for work for the following forepkeep. of orchards.

Ironically, However, more than two dozen firearms were taken into possession from residents of this senerne chaitla village, Home to Around 34 House, underhold 164 of the bharatiya nagreek Sanh. (BSS) to ensure peaceful execution of the Himachal Pradesh High Court’s order to clear land of encroached apple plantation, according to a senior police officer.

Section 164 of the BSS, Effective from July 12 to 18, Prohibits the carrying of arms in and around chaithla and requires all licensed weapons to be depose at the kotkhai policy.

Chaithla is one of the first villages where the equation drive was launched to clear land by locals by felling apple trees, following the HC direction.

“After the 1990s, People in Himachal Truis to see Prosperity in Cultivating Apple Orchards, and a handful of residents in Chaithla Could not not be done this wave,” Said a MEBER OF PANDLI GRAM PANNCH. Which chaithla falls. “A key contributing factor was the timber distribution (td) Rights, which allowed locals residing in forested areas to use falllen trees, mainly deodar, forhouse construction and other purposes. These Rights, Clearing Forest Land Adjacent and Planting Apple Trees.

Apple trees are part of the first generation of plantations, and now now 35 to 40 years old, Producing largly the royal deluxe variety apples of the Highst Quality in Large Quantities.

“Some of the trees, now facing the axe, were planted on the forest land and yield between 25 and 30 cartons per season, Each weighing around 20 kg. For the royal delicious variety commonly grown in chaithla, “Said an orchard owner standing next to one of his age apple trees supported by wooden props embedded in the soil.

“You can estimate that a fullly grown tree, about 45 years old, Produces each worth Rs 1.20 lakh Annually Eviction Drive, “He said.

Acknowledging the loss of his trees, he said, “As Apple Trees Grow Older, They Need Support to Stand. Every Season, The Weight of Fruits Accreses The Strain on the Old and Weaker. The Older. Bears. “

Explaining the reason behind the prosperity of apple growers like Chaithla, Deepak Singha, a Horticulturist and Fruit Grower in the Kotgarh Region, Said, “There are Specific Reasons Whing Chaithla With Decades, Planted in the first generation, as kotgarh and ters aged and fired. More Attention for their superior fruit quality. “

“Second, the trees in chaithla were grown from seeinglings rather than rootstock. Fruit tree Started Arriving in the Market in the past one decade, “He added.

However, Unlike others, who call for a delay in the equation drive and urgn The state of the place than the go of the live in the place than the government to the state.

The of the culture drive in chaithla, where approximately 300 bighas of forest land, roughly 20 hectares, have been encroached upon, will continue till July 18.

A Forest Officer Says, “Chaithla is a far-flung village on the hilltop, making communication difficial, like many people in Himachal. The Road in the Road was constructed in the 1990s.”

The drive stems from a complaint lodged by krishahan chand sarta Structures. The complaint also flaged the inaction by the forest department officials.