In order to use tenanted land for setting up of projects for community or public purpose, the Goa government has introduced the Goa Land Use (Regulation) Bill, 2024 seeking amendment to Section 3 of Goa Land Use (Regulation) Act, 1991 so as to specify in the Right to Fair Compensation …
A MAJOR operation is on to restore the famous Dal Lake in Srinagar. Encroachments around the lake are being removed by the department of housing and urban development under its lake conservation programme initiated in 1997. According to the department, a major achievement of the programme is the reclamation of …
ASIATIC lions are found at only one place in the world - the Gir National Park, Gujarat. Now the Union ministry of environment and forests is planning a second home for them at an estimated cost of about Rs 65 crore in Madhya Pradesh. The project will be spread over …
AROUND two hundred people of the Kada tribe of the Parambiculam wildlife sanctuary in Kerala have opted to move out to other parts of the district. In a letter to the forest minister P R Kurup, seventy four Kada families have suggested Malampuzha or Kollengode as the sites for alternative …
"WE ARE waiting for doomsday," says 23-year-old Ramraj Tiwary, grandson of Pandit Bajrangbali Tiwary, the priest of the erstwhile Jharia estate. One more tremor and the country's coal capital, with a population of 4,00,000, will subside and disappear. "What is more tragic is that the public sector giant Bharat Coking …
The current attitude of BCCL, according to Jharia Bachao Abhiyan Samiti, is contrary to its declared Rs 10,000 crore rehabilitation plan which it had proudiy announced in 1984. Sources within the company say it had drawn up a plan to create seven satellite townships, away from the endangered area, for …
Anti-megadam protests reached a flashpoint on April 22, when thousands of people affected by the 400 MW Maheshwar hydropower project in Madhya Pradesh entered the dam site, breaching police barricades, and stalled construction work. The hydroproject is part of the Narmada Valley Development Project (NVDP). About 5,000 people from villages …
two reports about the fate of sea birds affected by oil slicks reveal a very sorry picture about their survival after they are released from captivity. In the uk , for example, only one per cent of guillemots (a sea bird) survived the first year of release. In the Netherlands, …
The repatriation of thousands of Bangladeshi tribal refugees from northeast India is almost complete, officials said. They said 56,520 refugees, including 11,000 families, have returned to the Chittagong hill tracts from camps in Tripura form last March. The remaining, numbering around 4,000, are expected to return soon. The repatriation began …
The World Commission on Dams (WCD) has been formed to review the efficacy of large dams in various countries. It will be chaired by Kader Asmal, the water affairs and forestry minister of South Africa. The Indian high commissioner to South Africa, Laxmi Chand Jain will be its vice chair-person. …
The swirl of rumour, assertion and denials which has long surrounded Malaysia's Bakun Dam continues despite Prime Minister Mahathir Mohammed's late-1997 announcement of the project's indefinite postponement. The 10,000 people living in the reservoir zone continue to live under total uncertainty as to their future. In October last year, Malaysian …
this book could not have come at a more opportune time when the Narmada and Sardar Sarovar debate is high on the priority list of the nation and the general issue of development versus displacement is nowhere near being resolved or even reaching a consensus. From the mid 1980s the …
even as Sunderlal Bahuguna continued his hunger fast in protest against construction of the Tehri dam, the expert committee on rehabilitation and environmental aspects of the hydroelectric project submitted its report to the government on November 13, 1997. The panel noted major flaws in the project's 20-year old rehabilitation and …
This article discusses how the Sardar Sarovar Dam in India is a case of a development project which causes environmental displacement on a massive scale. This occurs through the impairment of livelihoods by environmental changes. The problems of resettlement and rehabilitation are emphasized in the article as are further displacement …
The National Environmental Commission of Chile recently gave its final approval for the construction of a second 570-mw dam on the Bio Bio river despite stringent criticism from ecologists and local Indian tribes who seem destined to lose their indigenous land to the project. The electric utility Endesa's environmental impact …
HARD truths need harsher frames. Especially if the truths deal with the excreta that the dominant model of development in India produces when it squats on its way to concrete progress. And if film is the medium in which the squatting is caught. In the film under review, big dam …
LOCAL groups in Singrauli, Madhya Pradesh, have recently complained to the World Bank against the National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) for not rehabilitating villagers displaced by the latter's projects. The NTPC is the Bank's largest beneficiary in the world, having received over $4 billion since 1975. It was alleged that …
scavengery is a sardonic remnant of the days of Raj. May be it was the only alternative then to observe hygiene but its presence in today's context is highly uncalled for. The existence of this age-old inhumane practice is not only a stigma on scientific advancement but also on humanity. …
in order to wean away Tripura's tribals from their traditional jhum (slash and burn) cultivation, a comprehensive rehabilitation package worth Rs 120 crore with rubber plantation as the main source of income, has been envisaged. Targetting 14,000 ha, the project is aimed at rehabilitating 15,000 tribals within the next five …
NOVEMBER 29, 1996, the residents of Delhi were, as usual, cohabiting with a smoke-filled sky and toxic wastes in water and food. December I saw the same standards. On the face of it, nothing really seems to have changed. Even following the Supreme Court (SC) verdict that after November 30, …
Six years after their land and homes were submerged by the Bargi dam, residents of 162 villages in Seoni, Mandla and Jabalpur districts of the upper Narmada valley in Madhya Pradesh still await rehabilitation. After the first phase of the people's struggle, the state government had handed over the Bargi …
