The IMF’s April 2025 Regional Economic Outlook for Sub-Saharan Africa presents a clear warning: regional growth is slowing, debt pressures are mounting, and donor assistance is declining. Yet the report outlines critical opportunities particularly in domestic revenue mobilization, structural reform, and private sector activation that can shape a more resilient …
Ahead of the Himachal Pradesh elections, BJP sharpened its attack against Congress leader Virbhadra Singh, alleging that his relatives violated the state laws to buy agricultural and forest lands and sold them off to builders for windfall gains. Reacting to media reports about these allegations, BJP spokesperson Nirmala Sitharaman said …
In an agreement with Jan Satyagraha, Centre promises to initiate land reforms Thousands of landless poor aborted their march to Delhi on Thursday, accepting the government's promises to initiate land reform and the possibility of statutory backing for the right to shelter, homestead and agricultural land. Rural Development Minister Jairam …
Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh on Thursday met Jan Satyagraha activists in Agra and signed an agreement committing that the government will draft a national land reforms policy within six months. The activists, demanding land reforms for the poor, began their march from Gwalior on October 2, and had …
The specific objectives of the research study are: To describe the current level of ownership and control of the selected communities over the land and natural resources; To describe the circumstances and manner that the land is being grabbed; To identify the impacts of land grabbing on the selected communities; …
A task force will be set up under the Rural Development Minister to take the process forward and the first meeting will be held on October 17 Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh today met Jan Satyagraha activists and agreed to their demands for framing a National Land Reforms Policy, thus …
Jairam Ramesh concludes two days of intense negotiations The Central government will come halfway — literally — in its bid to prevent the thousands of landless poor now marching along National Highway 3 from actually reaching the capital. After two days of intense negotiations with the march’s organisers Ekta Parishad, …
Former Madhya Pradesh Congress president and former Union Minister Suresh Pachouri in a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh urged him to resolve the demands of the Satyagrahis pertaining to land reforms, Right to Shelter and Right to Livelihood. Pachouri in his letter to the Prime Minister said, “As you …
Thousands of people began a long march from Gwalior to Delhi on Wednesday demanding that the Centre announce a national land reforms policy and amend legislations for the benefit of the landless. Mobilised by Ekta Parishad, an NGO, the Jan satyagraha, as the march has been called, will culminate in …
Thousands from all over India set to march to Delhi to demand their own land Dhanalakshmi, a 22-year-old from Paliyar hill tribe of Tamil Nadu, is a long way from home. At 7 a.m. this Wednesday she will join nearly 60,000 other landless poor, adivasis and dalits who have streamed …
Efforts of Jairam and Jyotiraditya to talk them out of it fail Dhanalakshmi, a 22-year-old from the Paliyar hill tribe of Tamil Nadu, is a long way from home. At 7 a.m. on Wednesday, she will join about 60,000 other landless poor, Adivasis and Dalits who have streamed into Gwalior …
The Cabinet on Wednesday decided to limit the extent of land that can be used by plantations for tourism purposes. The State, by way of an amendment to the Land Reforms Act, had earlier allowed 5 per cent of land in recognised plantations to be used for cultivating non-plantation crops …
The Singur Land Rehabilitation and Development Act, 2011, that has been struck down by the Calcutta High Court as “unconstitutional and void” was described by Governor M. K. Narayanan here on Monday as one of the “most progressive items of legislations” passed by the West Bengal Legislative Assembly. Mr Narayanan …
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is exploring the possibility of land reforms even as he has been slammed by activists for not having convened a single meeting of the National Council for Land Reforms (NCLR) headed by him since its formation in 2008. Dr Singh has directed the Planning Commission to …
Says government move will lead to misuse and diversion of the land Congress leader V.M. Sudheeran has written to Chief Minister Oommen Chandy criticising the government move to allow use of 5 per cent of plantation land for tourism purposes and to classify cashew cultivation areas as plantations. In his …
Finance Minister K. M. Mani told the Assembly on Tuesday that law allowing conversion of five per cent of plantations for cultivation of other crops and tourism would be implemented carefully. “None would be allowed to misuse the law,” the Minister said while replying to the debate on the supplementary …
KOLKATA, 3 JULY: Plots belonging to the tribals in north Bengal have been occupied by non-tribals but the state backward classes welfare department is unable to restore them because of legal complications coming in the way. According to an official of the department, land in Jalpaiguri and Malda and few …
NAC member lashes out at government for ‘absolute lack of intent’ in meeting demand for land reforms. National Advisory Council member Aruna Roy has criticised the government for failing to deliver on land reforms. Criticising the UPA dispensation for not convening a single meeting of the National Land Reforms Council …
- Partha to answer questions of industrialists at closed-door session today Will private investors get the government’s help in getting land for industry? What is the status of the state’s land bank? How can investors secure permission to get ceiling-surplus land from government companies? Answers to some of these questions …
This article examines the implementation of the Forest Rights Act of 2006 in the historical context of Wayanad’s adivasi land struggles. The left-wing Government of Kerala (2006-11) aimed to interpret the FRA as a legal opportunity to obtain forest (department) land and to fulfil decade-old promises to redistribute land to …
BHUBANESWAR: The State Government has prepared draft amendment to make provisions under the Orissa Prevention of Land Encroachment (OPLE) Act, 1972, more stringent. The draft amendment is done on the lines of laws framed by Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh governments and the proposed amendment suggests collection of hefty rent from …
