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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Guv to Use Powers to Cancel Mining Licences
Tribal displacement, without rehabilitation, has led to growth of Naxalism: Tribal ministry With spurt in Naxal attacks, the Centre has decided to ask governors to use special powers in tribaldominated
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Land for BAL illegally acquired, say villagers
BALASORE: Residents of at least seven villages in Balgopalpur area in Balasore district have accused the authorities of Balasore Alloys Limited (BAL) of illegally acquiring their land for its proposed
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Maoist statement
The government – both at the centre and the state (Odisha) – has reduced adivasis into mere exhibition items in attempts to lure domestic and foreign tourists. On the other hand, they invite multinational
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Resettlement and Rehabilitation (R&R) policy for mining projects
The National Rehabilitation and Resettlement Policy, 2007 has been formulated with an objective to address concerns on involuntary displacement through a quantification of the costs and benefits that will
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MMRDA to focus on land acquisition, rehabilitation
After securing sources for financing the fully-underground Colaba-Bandra-Seepz Metro corridor, the development authority implementing the project is now focusing its attention on the land acquisition and rehabilitation procedure of residents to be displaced by the Metro. According to initial estimates, the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) has identified about 1,000 families that would be affected by the project. These would be mostly around the stations planned on the Colaba-Bandra-Seepz Metro line, which is the third Metro planned for the city.
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Rehabilitation and Resettlement Policy of Coal India Ltd 2012
<p><span id="itro1">The Rehabilitation and Resettlement Policy 2012 of Coal India Ltd attempts to provide flexibility to deal more effectively with resettlement and rehabilitation issues and determine
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The concept of human security as a tool for analysing the consequences of development-induced displacement and resettlement
The consequences of development-induced displacement are the subject of research undertaken by experts from many disciplines. In addition to the specialist theoretical concepts (IRR Model; Colson-Scudder
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Land acquisition by coal companies in Jharkhand
Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt and others (“Land Acquisition and Dispossession: Private Coal Companies in Jharkhand”, EPW, 11 February 2012), touch on several important issues, but with a sophistication which is
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Dwarka fastest-growing residential hub
According to the Census 2011 data on houses, household amenities and assets released on Tuesday, Delhi’s population growth slowed down between 2001 and 2011, as compared to the previous decade. Here are
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Almost 6 lakh bighas of land eroded since ’71
GUWAHATI, March 13 – The State has lost an area of 5,95,155 bighas of land due to erosion by the Brahmaputra between 1971 and 2009 and according to information received from seven districts, a total of