Order of the Supreme Court in the matter of Sugra Adiwasi & Others Vs Pathranand & Others dated 29/04/2025. The bench of Justice Pamidighantam Sri Narasimha and Justice Joymalya Bagchi directed the state of Madhya Pradesh as well as the central government through the the Ministries of Tribal Affairs and …
No government can take a decision against people’s wishes when it comes to bauxite mining, YSRC president Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy has declared. “Whoever be the Chief Minister, Y.S. Rajasekhar Reddy or N. Chandrabababu Naidu or even Jaganmohan Reddy can take up bauxite mining against the wishes of the tribal people,” …
Vizianagaram: Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu said the TD government would take up bauxite mining in the Vizag Agency only when the locals wanted it. The government will not take a hasty decision, he said. Participating in the Jana Chaitanya Yatra at Lakkavarapukota in Vizianagaram district on Monday, Mr Naidu …
Everything in the Dhanwatey household spells heritage, be it antique furniture, pictures of tigers staring at you from old frames or century-old trees surrounding their ancestral house. You can't help but wonder whether their love for forests and flora and fauna stems from the respect for heritage that the couple …
Question raised in Lok Sabha on Mining Policy in Tribal Areas, 30/11/2015. The Constitution of India provides safeguards to the Scheduled Tribes. In recent years The Panchayats (Extension to Scheduled Areas) Act, 1996, Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006, The Right to Fair …
Biodiversity will adversely affect, it says A fact–finding committee of the Organization for Protection of Democratic Rights (OPDR) has said that bauxite mining in the Agency areas of Visakhapatnam would adversely affect biodiversity and destroy forest cover. OPDR general secretary V. Hanumantha Rao stated in a press release that bauxite …
Historically, usage and access of forest resources by India’s Adivasi community and other forest dwellers have been considered as encroachment and their efforts of forest land acquisition have been used as evidence of their anti-development attitude. Government policy has continued to deny them legal rights to use, manage and conserve …
Asian Centre for Human Rights in its report, “Arunachal Pradesh: Not the Chakmas/Hajongs but other non-tribals pose bigger threat to indigenous peoples”, stated that Chakmas and Hajongs of Arunachal Pradesh who had migrated from erstwhile East Pakistan during 1964-1968 do not pose any threat to indigenous peoples of Arunachal Pradesh. …
The Centre will constitute a committee to conduct a study on ownership of forest land in the Northeastern region. Informing this here on Tuesday, Union Minister of state for Environment, Forest and Climate Change Prakash Javadekar said the objective of the committee is to ensure forests and environment are protected …
Visakhapatnam: With protest against bauxite resonating in Visakha Agency, MLC MVS Sarma has urged President Pranab Mukherjee and AP governor ESL Narasimham to intervene in the issue to stop mining of bauxite in the district as the recently released government order was in clear violation of the Constitution. In a …
The report, Mining, the Aluminium Industry and Indigenous Peoples: Enhancing Corporate Respect for Indigenous Peoples’ Rights, provides a global overview of the challenges facing indigenous peoples, and presents five case studies from Australia, Cambodia, Guinea, India and Suriname. The case studies reveal that indigenous communities are affected by primary production …
Around 8,000 tribals, who would be directly affected by the proposed mining of bauxite in the 1212 hectares in Jerrila and Chintapalli Reserve Forests for which the government issued orders for diversion of forest land are up in arms. The opposition and resentment with the political leadership is widespread. Men, …
VISAKHAPATNAM: For the first time in the 68 years of independent India, as many as 2,000 tribals finally got purified drinking water at their doorsteps in Ananthagiri agency mandal in the district. Though there are several perennial water springs and waterfalls, the tribals spread in five hamlets had been suffering …
The Odisha government is giving final touches to the proposed amendment to the Odisha Scheduled Areas Transfer of Immovable Property Regulations, 1956, which would open a window for tribals to sell their land to non-tribals in the Fifth Schedule areas. As per the proposal, tribal land will be transferred to …
Mukuna Sikaka, 32, is a visitor to the health camp held by the local administration at Sakata village in the Rayagada district, around 30 km from here, the site of Vedanta's alumina refinery. Such health camps exclusively for particularly vulnerable tribal groups like the Dongaria Kondhs were unheard of in …
Organisations like Niyamgiri Surakshya Samity (NSS), Lok Sangram Manch (LSM) and All India Kisan Mazdoor Sabha (AIKMS) have decided to restart organising people’s movement against alleged attempt of Odisha government to revive proposal of bauxite mining in Niyamgiri hill range. These organisations had played a key role during the agitation …
An indigenous community in East Kalimantan has won a prestigious environmental award from the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) for its persistent efforts to protect its forest from being turned into coal mines and oil palm plantations. The Dayak Benuaq tribe from Muara Tae village in West Kutai, East Kalimantan, …
The Colombian authorities decided to temporarily close Tayrona National Nature Park, one of its most popular tourist destinations in the northern Caribbean region, in response to an indigenous community petition to protect nature. The tourists ban takes effect on Nov. 1 and lasts one month. The closure came after the …
Forty years after being established with a mandate to generate data on the nutritional status of socially vulnerable groups, the National Nutrition Monitoring Bureau (NNMB) has been shut down by the Union Health Ministry. The bureau, under the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), had been critical in informing the …
The 260-mw Jispa Dam project at the snowbound Lahaul valley faces tribal opposition. The dam aims at storing about 0.8 million-acre feet of water to feed 11 major power projects downstream in the Chenab basin. Himachal Pradesh Power Corporation Limited (HPPCL) has sought police protection to carry out site investigation …
Land will be returned to 13 tribal families which had secured it four decades ago under an Act to curb holdings In a setback to the controversial Lavasa Housing Project, the Maharashtra government has ordered Lavasa Corporation to return 60 acres to indigenous tribal families. Source said Subhash Borkar, a …
