Illicit appropriation of commonly held spaces for a variety of purposes such as agriculture, housing settlements, and small businesses is a standard feature of changing rural and peri-urban landscapes. So also, from allotment for housing, building of schools to expansion of cultivable land, aquaculture and plantations, commons have provided a pool from which various government departments, programs, etc. have sought to extract. The devaluation of commons is what enables these processes of appropriation and redistribution. Experiences and observations regarding these may be done here.

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