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 …
A single letter shot off by the Karnataka government to the Bilirangan Temple Wildlife Sanctuary (brt) has brought 25,000 Soliga tribals subsisting on non timber forest produce (ntfp) to the brink of destitution. The government notification, in adherence to the recently legislated Wild Life (Protection) Amendment Act, 2002, has banned …
an imminent report by the Central Bureau of Investigation (cbi) might compound the woes of Kerala's tribals who suffered police firing from close range in their struggle for forestland. The agency is about to give a clean chit to the police operation to drive the tribals away from the Muthunga …
In a small house in the back alleys of H D Kote, Mysore, Karnataka, schoolteachers are being taken to task. They are presenting quarterly reports on their work to a parents' association, but the occasion is almost festive and not acrimonious. This is not the regular parents-teacher meeting in a …
One stove, one pot What eco-development means to people in Nagarhole When forest department officials find a handful of tourists staying overnight in the Nagarhole forest they put on a video show in the evening. For the last two years the same cassette has been played: Nagarhole's magnificent wild animals …
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Both the Forestry Research Education and Extension Project (FREEP) and its later, larger avatar, the India Eco-development project (IEDP) had a single objective: conserve biodiversity. What also made it a different form of rural development, quite unlike anything government had hitherto done, was the equal emphasis on improving the lives …
IEDP's larger monitoring mechanism, too, seems to have been primarily meant for the government or Bank consumption. The Bank sent its supervisory missions and its supervisors wrote
There exists a document called Linking Biodiversity Conservation and Rural Livelihoods. It is the Indian government's initial salvo for a new eco-development project, expected to begin late 2005. It will cost approximately US $48 million (Rs 220 crore), with beneficiaries putting in US $2 million (Rs 9.20 crore). The remaining …
Protests against Pakistan's acquisition of vast tracts of land for mega military projects in its western Balochistan province are snowballing. In the latest incident, tribals blew up an airport in the gas-rich region of Sui. And now, local nationalist parties have threatened action on August 1. The tribe members fired …
Nimati Domohini village in the west of Buxa Tiger Reserve, West Bengal, is on a highway where a side road breaks off and leads to the reserve's Nimati range office seven kilometres away. But the village is miles away from realising the dreams dreamt by its 331-member eco-development committee (EDC) …
kerala's tribal resettlement mission is turning out to be a typical bureaucratic exercise. The recent acquisition of the 3,060-hectare (ha) Central State Farm (csf) at Aralam in Kannur district by the state government for resettling landless tribals is a case in point. The government purchased the land from the Union …
The Union ministry of tribal affairs has come out with a draft policy on tribals. The document is actually a restatement of the Indian state's long-held condescension towards tribals. It is replete with condescending terms such as "primitive tribes'. While the adjective
In Nowgai village of Madhya Pradesh's (mp) Shahdol district, a self-help group (shg) comprising members of the Baiga tribe today boasts savings worth over Rs 4.5 lakh. This recent upturn in their fortunes is linked to lac cultivation on the palash (Butea monosperma) trees that dot most fields in the …
June 7 saw the life of Binda bai, a tribal woman belonging to Golkheda village in Madhya Pradesh's (mp) Khargone district, change drastically for the worse. The day had begun on a normal enough note, with her husband Jawan Singh setting off to work in his fields. But the 55-year-old …
construction halted: The Patna High Court has stayed the proposed construction of a shopping complex at the Sandies compound in Bhagalpur, Bihar, because the site lies in a green belt. A division bench comprising Chief Justice Ravi S Dhavan and Justice S K Singh also asked the district administration to …
the uncertainty regarding the fate of the Jarawas, the endangered tribe living in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, has increased. During a recent meeting, the concerned authorities failed to evolve a consensus on the closure of certain parts of Andaman Trunk Road (atr), which cuts through the Jarawa Reserve. The …
It has been three years since Sumani Jaghodi a tribal resident of Mandibisi village, Rayagada district, Orissa led a successful struggle of hill broom collectors in the district. She still cannot believe that her modest broom could overturn an enormously skewed forest law of the state. Till March 2000, the …
under sustained public pressure, Canadian company alcan has finally agreed to release documents pertaining to the likely environmental impact of its controversial bauxite mining project as well as its proposed aluminium plant in Kashipur village of Orissa's Rayagada district. The entity's decision constitutes a major victory for the tribal people …
