Jungle se ab nahi bedakhal (Now, forest-dwellers won’t be evicted from the jungle)”, declare billboards across Chhattisgarh’s Surguja, a district over 330 km northeast of the state capital Raipur. The statement on the billboard is accompanied by Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel’s smiling face, and data: 500,000 forest-dependent families have been granted rights over land and resources spanning 9.6 million acre of forested area.