Twice the area of Goa under encroachment in Assam

Over 49 lakh bighas, or 6,652 sq km, of land was under encroachment across Assam, a reply from then junior revenue minister Pallab Lochan Das in the assembly in 2017 said. The area would roughly be twice the total area of Goa and just a little less than that of Sikkim.

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