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 …
Termites form an important part of the diet of human beings around the world including India. Many South Indian tribes including 'Kannikaran', 'Paniyan', 'Palliyan', 'Sholaga', 'Irular' and 'Kota' have been using the termite Odontermes formosanus Shiraki for the treatment of ashtma.
THE draft National Environment Policy (NEP: http://envfor.nic.in/nep/nep.pdf) released by the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) has attracted much attention. It represents the first-ever attempt to draft a policy for the environment as a whole. At first glance, the document appears to be quite comprehensive and sophisticated. It endorses a …
A fierce clash over water has displaced thousands of people and killed at least 15 in the Mai Mahiu region, about 60 kilometers northwest of Kenya's capital Nairobi. The tussle over water rights between the Maasai and Kikuyu tribes, which dates back to the 1960s, took a violent turn on …
the process of drafting the proposed Scheduled Tribes and Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forests Rights) bill started with the first meeting of the technical support group (tsg) to the Union ministry of tribal affairs (mota) on February 7, 2005. The bill, being monitored by the prime minister's office and managed …
the Orissa High Court (hc) has issued show cause notices to government authorities for not disclosing details of the Lower Suktel dam project in Bolangir district to the tribals threatened to be displaced by it. The January 10, 2005, order came as a shot in the arm for thousands of …
Even in remote villages, you can find shops providing tea and cigarettes/biris to the satisfaction of local consumers. But there are no schools, roads or drinking water. Now, we will all agree that schools and roads are more important than tea and cigarettes. Why, then, are lower-priority items well provided …
The sad state of public systems is the result of several, interrelated factors. Scarcity of resources, the most widely cited explanation, is an exaggerated alibi. Of course, the resources mobilised by the State are inadequate to meet costs of government and development expenditures (including maintenance and improvement of social services …
India has been enduring a tragedy for the past 250 years: government structures incongruous with the essential character of our traditional society, our samaaj, have been imposed on us. And this power of the State has only increased. That's why we see that the government machinery is incapable of delivering …
The archipelago of the Andaman and Nicobar islands consists of 572 islands; 35 are known to be inhabited. These are home to five tribes. The Jarawas, Sentinelese and Onges are Negrito tribes. The Andamanese have ceased to be a tribe and a pure-blood Andamanese is a rarity. The remaining two …
The draft National Environment Policy (nep) released recently by the Union ministry of environment and forests (moef) identifies major environmental problems, outlines their causes and puts forward a set of principles to address problems. But glaring loopholes remain. The most obvious ones pertain to the draft's contradictions with current government …
It's the second week of March 2002. Morum, the annual Apatani spring festival, is in full swing at Hapoli, district Ziro, Arunachal Pradesh. The feasting includes voluminous amounts of barking deer meat. Flesh of common hill partridges, red jungle fowls, Assamese macaques and great barbets have also found their way …
the atmosphere in Orissa is rife with tension and resentment over the setting up of an alumina refinery plant near Bagrijhola village in Kashipur block, Rayagada district. The Naveen Patnaik government is in a hurry to make the Rs 4,000 crore project, of Utkal Alumina International Limited (uail), operational. This …
What happens when it is discovered that two departments of the government, namely the Forest Department and the Revenue Department,have committed grave errors in discharging their duties, especially when the error has led to the denial of certain sonstitutional rights to lakhs of people? The Orange Area land dispute is …
a multi-state World Bank (wb) loan for some tribal populations in India is in the pipeline, making it the first time the country might receive such a loan. The loan is to focus on the central Indian tribes that depend on forests for their livelihood. The money will be distributed …
the Union government and the Andaman and Nicobar administration have decided to build a database on the Jarawa tribe. The Anthropological Survey of India (asi) has already initiated work in this regard. The government was under tremendous pressure from activists across the globe to collect the required information about the …
The State/Union Territory Forest Produce (Ownership of Forest Dependent Community) Act, 2005, which seeks to endow rights to minor forest produce to the forest dwellers, including tribals.
