A high-level meeting chaired by Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan here on Tuesday decided to rehabilitate 161 tribal families that were evicted from Perinchamkutty in Idukki at the same land and each family would be given one acre of land.

The land belongs to the Revenue Department and hence there are no hitches in providing land to the tribal families. Teak was planted in the land in 1978. The Forest Department will have the ownership of the land and once the trees mature, it will be cut by the department itself.

Revenue Minister E. Chandrasekharan, SC/ST Welfare Minister A.K. Balan, Forest Minister K. Raju and other officials attended the meeting.