World migration report 2024
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) launched the World Migration Report 2024, which reveals significant shifts in global migration patterns, including a record number of displaced people
Displacement
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Humanitarian implications of climate change: mapping emerging trends and risk hotspots
This study identifies the most likely humanitarian implications of climate change for the next 20-30 year period. The authors use Geographical Information Systems (GIS) to map specific hazards associated with climate change
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Save the coast, save the fishers
A campaign by the National Fishworkers
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Performance and development effectiveness of the Sardar Sarovar Project
The Sardar Sarovar Dam on the river Narmada
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REIA & EMP Report of expansion of Alumina Refinery from 1 MMTPA to 6 MMTPA Capacity of M/s Vedanta Aluminium Limited, Lanjigarh, Kalahandi, Orissa
M/s Vedanta Aluminium Limited (VAL) a part of the US$ 6 billion Vedanta Resources Plc, a London listed 100 FTSE company. VAL has set up an Alumina Refinery of 1 MMTPA capacity at Lanjigarh, Dist. Kalahandi, Orissa and is proposing for its expansion to 6 MMTPA Alumina production capacity. <br />
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India should develop
State of strife Enlarge view Is India building its developmental house from the roof down, with a non-existent foundation? Arun Kumar, professor of economics at the Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi, thinks so.
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A noise filter for the State
The great Indian State no more sits on the fence, has crossed over to the industry"s side on the sidelines of G-8 summit in Hokkaido, Japan, the Indian Prime Minister committed to his South Korean counterpart he would try his best to help posco begin constructing its steel plant, at Jagatsinghpur in Orissa, by August this year. Is the pm aware of widespread opposition from the affected
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1,620.361 ha of discontent
Special economic zones and sit-ins. Mega-projects and marches. Public-private partnerships and pitched battles. Precociously, because they are desperate, state governments are willing to hand land, forest, water over to industry.<br><br> Raucously, because they are really desperate, people all over India have begun to use all available means to contest the usually coercive intrusion of the State into their lives, and livelihoods. <br><br> Consider, as symptom, the Orissa government
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Rehab scheme for the displaced on the anvil
A high-power committee to be set up for the same NEW DELHI: The Union Government is evolving out-of-the-box rehabilitation packages for people displaced on account of new hydel projects in the country. This was stated by Union Power Secretary Anil Razdan at the conclusion of a State Power Secretaries' Conference organised by the PHD Chamber on Tuesday. Mr. Razdan said the Government was seriously considering evolving a viable and friendly rehabilitation package for people who had been displaced because of the upcoming hydel projects.
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Special Economic Zones in India
Despite the overwhelming evidence of "immiserisation' due to displacement, numerous cases of resistance and the distortion of democratic processes, the neoliberal paradigm remains dominant in India.
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Compensation sought against land acquisition
The people of Dambuk, Kalabari Dambuk, Balukaguri and Amguri Dambuk have flayed the process of land acquisition from Meahaki Tiniali to Dambuk embankment for Bogibeel project at Balukabari land block in the northern bank of the Brahmaputra under Sissi revenue block.