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 …
- Entrepreneurs wary, say JMM was behind agitations against expansion of Adityapur manufacturing hub The Adityapur industrial zone With Shibu Soren taking charge as the chief minister, industrialists based in Adityapur are now waiting with bated breath to find out what will be the new government
Shimla: With the inspection report of the district administration regarding violations in execution of the 100 MW Tidong-I hydro power project in Kinnaur indicting executors of causing damage to numerous trees and undertaking unscientific road construction, residents of the adjoining villagers are up in arms against the very coming up …
Tribals and SCs, prime concerns of the UPA government, have been the worst hit due to massive transfer of agricultural and forest land to match the aspirations of a developing nation. This, according to the Committee on State Agrarian Relations and The Unfinished Task in Land Reforms set up by …
In the Indian reform story, policies on land have been the least reformed one, said Ratan Tata on Monday. The Chairman of the Tata Group, whose company Tata Motors had to shift the production base for its Nano car from Singur in West Bengal to Sanand in Gujarat following continuous …
Ishita Ayan Dutt / Kolkata December 05, 2009, 0:20 IST Industrial projects in West Bengal are unlikely to be affected by the Allahabad High Court judgment that questioned the legitimacy of invoking the Land Acquisition Act for private companies
Development in Asia faces a crucial issue: the right of indigenous peoples to build a better life while protecting their ancestral lands and cultural identity. An intimate relationship with land expressed in communal ownership has shaped and sustained these cultures over time. But now, public and private enterprises encroach upon …
Special Economic Zones are nothing but special exemption zones and there is no reason to exempt these from all law. Hence, scrap these, is the recommendation of the Committee on Land Reforms and Agrarian Relations set up by the Union government to advise it on issues ranging from land reforms …
The rapid conversion of agricultural land for non-agricultural uses is not the best way to food security. That is what the government-appointed panel on land reforms and agrarian relations says in its report, currently under the consideration of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. It blames the conversion both on absence of …
Rural Bihar is being suffocated by the control exercised by the landed gentry who own a disproportionate share of cultivable land and yet have little interest in increasing agricultural production. Those who can and do
New Delhi: The UPA government has listed the Resettlement and Rehabilitation bill and Land Acquisition Amendment bill for introduction in the winter session of Parliament starting on Thursday, a move sure to test its will to skirt around protests from Trinamool Congress. The two bills had to be put off …
The government today issued a written statement saying the land allotted to an educational foundation off EM Bypass was not recorded as a fishery as claimed by the fisheries minister yesterday.
The project to develop destination tourism, circuit tourism and the Ganga Heritage cruise project in the state cannot be carried out as the state tourism department is yet to get necessary clearance from the land and land reforms department. Destination tourism covers areas in north Bengal, Mandarmani, Ganga Sagar, Birbhum, …
The Common Minimum Programme of the UPA government at the Centre articulates that, 'Landless families will be endowed with land through implementation of land ceiling and land redistribution legislation. No reversal of ceilings legislation will be permitted' (The Hindu, 2004). The Kalrayan hills of Tamil Nadu is purposively chosen for …
NIMBLE thought can jump both sea and land, mused the Poet obviously unconcerned about the need to acquire plots for plants, factories and whole industries. That was then, in less complicated times sans a host of rigidities amidst flux and change. Fastforward to the here and now, and the report …
Kol tribals in Patha region of Chitrakut district (Uttar Pradesh) have taken a big step forward in exposing the corruption which prevents the benefits of various government schemes from reaching them. Patha Kol Adhikar Manch (PKAM), an organisation of tribals active for several years has taken the lead in this …
This discussion paper explores the potential for addressing conflict in the forest sector through the use of company-led tools and mechanisms. A major conflict issue for many is that of recognising and negotiating rights to land and resources. Conflicts also arise between companies and communities or civil society organisations over …
The political movement that came up from among the people of Lalgarh in November 2008 cried out for help and support from the civil and democratic society
