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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Alert sounded on ‘environmental migration’
Under pressure: millions of people are moving to places that are more vulnerable to environmental disaster, including the Dharavi slum in Mumbai Tens of millions of people are moving to places that
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Affected villagers say no to cement plant: Central panel records objections
Apart from destroying over 38,000 trees and affecting 1.26 lakh trees, as many as 50 families in Talain village will be displaced permanently by the controversial Lafarge cement plant being set up in the
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Ryots oppose elephant corridor
23,000 acres of land has been identified adjoining Bisile forest range The information that the government is taking steps to relocate villagers to set up elephant corridor at Igur and Hongadahalli gram
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A lot of scepticism and some hope
After recognising the main reasons to be hopeful about the new Land Acquisition Bill, this commentary critiques two significant structural problems in the proposed legislation: first, the definition of
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Sops for the poor and a bonus for industry
While there are some positive features in the Land Acquisition Bill – the inclusion of both acquisition and rehabilitation in the same legislation, and provision for the displaced to receive a share of
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The impossibility of just land acquisition
If the State holds on to the market logic and sees the challenge in land acquisition as a problem of individual will of the “affected families” whose consent has to be taken (even when it is of a high
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Tarapur project: Displaced fishermen to get coastal land
The state government has not objected to providing land near the sea to fishermen who were 'rehabilitated' five km away from the sea because of the Tarapur Nuclear Power project. In a report submitted
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Fishermen affected by Tarapur project can be given land near sea: Govt
The Maharashtra government today told the Bombay High Court that it has no objection in providing land near sea to those fishermen who were rehabilitated farther from the seashore after setting up the
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2.5mn flood victims need safe drinking water: UN
The United Nations Agencies have estimated that 2.5 million people are in desperate need of safe drinking water and sanitation facilities in the flood hit areas. Talking to APP on Saturday, an official
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Baba Adhav to receive TOI social impact lifetime achievement award
PUNE: In 1966, Babasaheb Pandurang Adhav quit his medical practice to become a full-time labour organizer. Newly jobless , he asked a woman he admired to marry him. Since that woman was Sheelatai, she