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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Agnivesh joins DVC protests
Dhanbad, Jan. 29: More than 2,000 people displaced by the Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC) marched to Maithon’s BSK College Ground, 45 km from the district headquarter, today to take part in a public meeting
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Adivasi predicament in Chhattisgarh
Not only are the Forest Rights Act and the Panchayats Extension to Scheduled Areas Act routinely violated in Chhattisgarh, the adivasis are also short-changed on legislative representation and reservations
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Land acquisition policy against Adivasis, says Medha
‘Governments snatching lands without consent of gram sabhas' Noted social activist Medha Patkar has alleged that indiscriminate acquisition of farm and forest lands by the governments in the name of
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Etching new pathways to growth
The question is whether the protests across the world can be channelled to shape a better tomorrow According to Time magazine, the 2011 person of the year is “the protester”. Clearly, this is the image
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Narmada dam oustee
Refusing to be deterred by the biting cold, the Sardar Sarovar Project (SSP) and Jobat dam-affected adivasi oustees successfully completed three full weeks (21 days) of their indefinite action at the
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Centre seeks status report on Posco
BHUBANESWAR: The Centre has sought a status report from the State Government on the Posco project which has been stalled following the violence in Ground Zero this month which claimed one person. This
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Effects of riverbank erosion on livelihood
Riverbank erosion is one of the most unpredictable and critical type of disasters that takes into account the quantity of rainfall, soil structure, river morphology, topography of river and adjacent areas,
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Management of dominant environmental issues of water resources projects some case studies of projects in Orissa & Maharashtra
India has made a long journey in the field of irrigation by raising the irrigation coverage from 22.6 million ha in 1951 to 100 million ha in 2005. Consequently the food-grain production was raised from
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Drop plans for bauxite mining in Visakha Agency, says HRF
The Human Rights Forum (HRF) has urged the State and Central governments to drop proposals for mining bauxite in the Agency areas of Visakhapatnam. There was widespread opposition from people belonging to the plains and tribes who had not given their consent for bauxite mining.
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Implementation of Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006 – rules made there under
<p><span id="itro1">The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Social Justice and Empowerment reviewed the government rules for allocation of title deeds to forest dwellers in this report on Forest Rights