Women-led and women’s rights organizations are on the frontlines of today’s humanitarian crises—but many are at risk of disappearing. As global needs rise due to conflict, climate change, and displacement, deep cuts to foreign aid are threatening organizations that provide life-saving services for women and girls. In March 2025, UN …
This article describes the essential characteristics of various people's movements in Orissa against the backdrop of the recent Kalinga Nagar killings and also analyses how society reacts to such movements.
The iniquitous development agenda pursued by successive governments at the centre and the state has rendered several tribal groups in Orissa, who reside in some of the poorer, more inaccessible districts of the state, largely marginal to the governance process. Arguably, it is this alienation and underdevelopment that has afforded …
Orissa first drafted a comprehensive rehabilitation policy back in 1994, but that was never enacted. Currently, the state draws up R&R; policies on industry-specific basis. Another UNDP/DFID aided draft was presented to the state revenue department on 8 July 2005. After sitting on the draft since last year, the state …
at least 12 tribals and a policeman were killed in a clash at the Kalinga Nagar steel complex in Orissa's Jajpur district on January 2, 2006. The state government has ordered a judicial inquiry. Nearly 800 tribals from nearby villages were protesting the construction of a boundary wall for a …
TEHRI AGAIN As the old Tehri town drowns in the water impounded by the Tehri dam, some way upstream another hydroelectric power project is making an unwelcome appearance. Work on a hydel project, located on the Bhilangana river, a tributary of the Bhagirathi, is being carried out with heavy protection
Polavaram dam is an extravagant waste of public money that will provide little benefit to few people. It will set the state of Andhra Pradesh back for decades and may prevent Andhra Pradesh sharing in the economic prosperity experienced by the rest of India. This booklet argues that the Polavaram …
Polavaram dam is an extravagant waste of public money that will provide little benefit to few people. It will set the state of Andhra Pradesh back for decades and may prevent Andhra Pradesh sharing in the economic prosperity experienced by the rest of India. This booklet argues that the Polavaram …
The Government of Madhya Pradesh was initially supposed to undertake the process of land acquisition for the families displaced by the Indira Sagar Project (ISP), but it handed over the responsibility to the National Hydro Development Corporation (HYDC). This was tantamount to absolving itself of the responsibility and is, according …
It is now clear after two eventful decades that the crucial aspect of the tussle over the dams on the Narmada, particularly the Indira Sagar Project, is the neglect of resettlement and rehabilitation. "We aren't against the dam. We can't be it's already built. But be fair. Give us our …
Old Tehri town and several villages go under water following a court order to close the diversion canal and dam the Bhagirathi, while the scattered families' demands for compensation are yet to materialise. IT is a grave tragedy that is gradually unfolding in the vast submergence area of the 260-metre …
on november 8, 2005, a three-judge bench of the Supreme Court (sc) issued notices in a case challenging the closure of the final diversion tunnel of the Tehri dam project, because mandatory conditions have not been met. The sc was hearing a petition filed by N D Jayal and Shekhar …
the Polavaram multi-purpose project to be built across the Godavari threatens to displace hundreds of thousands of tribals in Andhra Pradesh (ap). The writing is, almost literally, on the wall. "Officials have come and put red marks (to identify villages in the submergence area) on our walls recently. We have …
• Free houses for displaced people at the rate of 125 sq metres in rural areas, and 63 sq metres in urban areas • A one-time grant of Rs 40,000 for constructing houses. A one-time grant for land development
The scale of displacement under Polavaram project is unprecedented and government has no proven capacity or commitment to rehabilitate the displaced. This project will not only hit lakhs of people, but also endanger the delta (with excessive water logging). So, government should give up the entire project
the Andhra Pradesh (ap) government's recent initiative to start the Indira Sagar Dam Project on river Godavari at Polavaram in West Godavari district has evoked serious protests from tribals of West Godavari, Khammam and East Godavari districts. Complains the Adivasi Girijana Samakhya , an organisation of tribals: "The
The Zimbabwe government's allegedly politically motivated clean-up operation targeting illegal settlements has invited the ire of the un, the us and the eu. The recently launched crackdown on residential areas and markets has rendered nearly 200,000 people homeless and snatched away many livelihoods. While the government says the move targets …
The people of Dobjhirna village, barely 5 kilometres (km) from the town of Semri in Madhya Pradesh's Hoshangabad district are furious. Not without reason. The land they have tilled for 15 years is to be taken away from them to relocate people from another village, Dhai, which lies in the …
function map() { var popurl="files/images/20050515/34-map.jpg" winpops=window.open(popurl,"","width=620,height=450,scrollbars=yes") } 168 dams. 34,920 mw. That is the hydroelectric power potential in the northeast, as per the Union ministry of power. s lp is just one of them, but shows how subterfuge, dirty politicking, lobbying and trouble such a project can get mired in, …
In the Kashipur block of district Rayagadh, Orissa, a 12-year-old conflict between villagers and a mining consortium shows no signs of abating. Utkal Alumina International Limited (uail) was formed in 1992. Initially comprising of partners indal, Tata, Norway-based Norsk Hydro and Canada-based Aluminium Company of Canada (alcan), the consortium today …
