FRA means an eviction of 1.9 million indigenous people in India
“Many of us have submitted a number of documents as proof—voter ID, school certificates, ration cards. But they continue to reject our claims, often saying that the documents we have given are not enough."—Diyog Siddi
The implementation of FRA is shoddy, even arbitrary
The Siddis in Gudundur
The threat of eviction will always loom for the Siddis
“When we go to cast our vote, nobody asks us who we are, where we come from or to prove that we have a genuine connection with this land. They just want our vote."—Juliana Siddi
“I’ve given them a picture of an old tree, testimony from a village elder—all of which are mentioned in the eligibility criteria under the law—but I still got rejected."—Asansa Abdulsaab Mujavar Siddi