India discrimination report 2022
The India Discrimination Report 2022 focuses on differential access to labour market (absorption and wages),factor market (access to credit) and endowment market (access to hospitalisation) for different
Tribals
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UP police withdraws charges against social activist
in what is seen as a vindication of the struggle for land rights, and a political victory, the police in Uttar Pradesh's Sonebhadra district withdrew nsa (National Security Act, 1980) charges
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Modi's Gandhi Jayanti gift defies SC ruling
<font class="UCASE">gujarat</font> chief minister Narendra Modi's attempt to appease tribals has backfired. On Gandhi Jayanti Modi handed over the ownership of forestland to 30 tribals and also promised to regularize the 2,204 claims over forestland. This, experts say, was in clear defiance of the Supreme Court ruling which barred any diversion of forestland without its nod. <br>
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Ethnographical account by a forest officer
Forests officers writing about conservation issues is nothing unusual. However, rarely does a forest officer write ethnographical accounts. C K Karunakaran, former chief conservator of forests,
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Melghat Malaise
This first of three Down To Earth analyses of tiger reserves finds Melghat in Maharashtra in a legal mess
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Uncertain future
Villages in the sanctuary
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Nadappa village
A patch of land near the Nadappa village comprised 50 tribal families at one point.
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Andaman and Nicobar: Beyond India's landmass
Excerpts from <i>Troubled Islands!</i> by Pankaj Sekhsaria
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Rampant mining
Hits Nicobar tribals hard
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The Urban Dwellers Rights to Forest Lands and Resources Bill 2005
A BILL To recognise and vest rights to forest lands, and lands/waters and resources of other ecosystems, in urban dwellers, in recognition of their essential needs to maintain and enhance their
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High and dry
Conservation cannot ignore pastoral rights