Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item Titled "Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s Golconda Fort Cries for attention appearing in ‘The Siasat Daily’ dated 25 May 2025". The application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled “Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s …
on august 30, the Karnataka government passed a cabinet decision to invite global tenders for the Bangalore-Mysore Infrastructure Corridor Project. Following this, the war between the project's present developer, Bangalore-based Nandi Infrastructure Corridor Enterprise (nice), and the state government has become worse. The project is facing problems since its inception …
Devrao Atram, a Kolam tribal from Maharashtra, got his land back two years ago. He had given 5 hectare (ha) on contract to a non-tribal banjara family 25 years ago. When he wanted to claim his land back five years from then, he was beaten up and driven out of …
"I have no choice but to leave my village in search of work. Otherwise, my family will starve,' says Samra Malik of Malikput village in Orissa's Koraput district. He, and several others landless like him, go to work on railway construction sites in Andhra Pradesh and coastal Orissa. Malik alleges …
The state's industrialisation drive has been detrimental for agricultural growth on the whole. But it has not always harmed farmers. In some cases, land has been acquired below the market price, in others, market-driven transactions have been embraced by farmers, presumably because they have benefited, if only in the short …
On April17, 2006, the Munici-pal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (mcgm) moved into Mahakali Nagar, near Powai, with a police contingent and razed 276 slum units that were
function table() { var popurl="image/20060430/47-table.jpg" winpops=window.open(popurl,"","width=400,height=350,scrollbars=yes") } "We don't want any free clothes, education or even food. All we want are our lands and forests,' demands Karrian. The 60-year-old from Devalaya hamlet of Gudalur taluka in Tamil Nadu's Nilgiri district belongs to the Panniya tribe. Anthropologists classify this tribe as …
1805: Nilambur Kovilgam, a ruler of a Kerala province, annexes 40,500 ha of Gudalur 1845: Kovilagam's successors (jenmies) start leasing out land to plantation companies. They also employ tenants to cultivate land directly under their control 1940s: Migration from Kerala; migrants are employed as tenants in jenmi lands 1950s and …
Section 2 (4): Forests include waste or arable lands containing trees, shrubs or reeds Section 3: Every Janmam estate including all communal pasture lands, forests, rivers, situated within the boundaries thereof shall be transferred to the government. Section 8: Under this section, jenmis (holders of the original Janmom land) are …
The Concerned Citizen's Commission, a coalition of citizens groups, has submitted its enquiry report on the Mumbai deluge of July 26, 2005. The report holds poor drainage, sanitation and waste management system to be primarily responsible for the floods. But the Maharashtra government is yet to pay heed to the …
on march 7, 2006, more than 7,000 residents of Maan, a sleepy village 30 km west of Pune in the Mulshi valley in Maharashtra, fought pitched battles with land survey officials of the Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation (midc) who were accompanied by a police contingent. midc wants to acquire land …
the district administration of Chickmagalur district, Karnataka, is set to initiate an eviction drive to free the land encroached by coffee growers. By March 31, 2006, it will reclaim 23 hactares (ha) of the 6,700 ha of government and forest land encroached by coffee growers in the Sargado reserve forest …
on january 18-19, 2006, the administration and the municipal authorities of Sawai Madhopur district in Rajasthan demolished 25 illegal properties around the Ranthambore national park. These properties had violated the Rajasthan Land Revenue Act, 1956. The structures razed included Anokhi, a shop run on the premises of Fateh Singh Rathore, …
2005: High Level Committee: Appointed by Delhi High Court to monitor clean-up and remove encroachments, as directed by Supreme Court (SC) in March 2003 2004: High Powered Committee (HPC): aka Baijal Committee. Appointed by SC to prepare an action plan for Yamuna 2000: Environment Pollution (Prevention and Control) Authority (EPCA) …
A recent direction by the Supreme Court of India (sc) on the upcoming Akshardham temple in Delhi has opened a can of worms: blatant master plan violations, by the Delhi government itself. These
India has the largest tribal population in the world. Tribals number 8.6 per cent of its total population. They are also among the country's most marginalised. Why has India's political democracy not given its tribals their due? What is in India's political system that prevents the tribal voice from being …
Kunwar Singh Jonko, 34, belongs to the Ho people, a Scheduled Tribe. His village Katamba is deep inside the forest, 60-odd km west of Chaibasa, the headquarters of East Singhbhum district of Jharkhand. In the Forest Department (FD) register, his house, his fields and the entire Katamba village is an …
February 2, 2001, is a date etched in blood in Tapkara. It was the first major incident of violence in about three decades of protest against the proposed Koel-Karo dam in the Torpa block of Ranchi district, Jharkhand. Police opened fire on 2,000 tribal people (or 5,000, depending on the …
Andhra Pradesh (AP) is the best place to learn how to use a tribal welfare machinery to subvert tribal interests and then use it to counter the polity at large that defends those interests. Three years ago, the state used a body mandated by the constitution
Democracy and self-rule remain elusive in tribal India. The main reason: India has no policy for its tribal people. Though the constitution acknowledged the special situation of tribal communities, it did nothing more than create some special windows of representation according to the population proportion. Result: the overall approach of …
You talk about a paradigm shift in tribal affairs. What do you mean? At the time of India's independence, tribal people in central India were seen as backward, superstitious, naive and poor. Even well meaning people concentrated on relief and improving their physical conditions. After 1947, the so-called mainstream had …
