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 …
The Koliyari dam in the Panchmahals district of Gujarat is yet another project that has elicited heated reactions. The dam is estimated to render about 8,000 tribals and double the number of cattle homeless. Although officials claim that only three villages - Patangdi, Guna and Navagam - would be submerged, …
WHILE inaugurating the Sixth Tribal Literary Conference in Nashik recently, Lok Sabha speaker P A Sangma called for the implementation of the Sixth Schedule of the Constitution through-out tribal areas in the country. The Sixth Schedule, which at present is applicable only to the north- eastern states, talks of granting …
PYROMETALLURGY, or the process of producing iron, was introduced in India around the second millennium BC. The Harappan people were not familiar with iron, although they made artefacts from copper and bronze and jewellery from gold and silver. Production of iron and steel is mentioned in the Rig and the …
around 5,000 members of the U'Wa tribe have threatened to commit suicide if an oil company from the us does not abandon its plans to drill for oil on their ancestral land. The tribe has already lost legal claim to the 162,000 hectares drilling site, which is located just outside …
Officials of Royal Dutch Shell, the international oi1company, had to yet again face the wrath of angry natives of Niger delta. 'This time, the protesters were not Ogonis but members of the Ijaw community who stormed six Shell facilities taking 127 Shell staff hostage. The protest soon spread eastward through …
The Warao communities in the Orinoco river delta of Venezuela are up in arms against transnational companies involved in oil exploration in three areas of their homelands. At a conference in Tucupita, the capital of Delta Amacuro state, they demanded immediate end to all oil-related activities and an investigation into …
THE lions are going on a safari to see humans being evicted. At stake is the culture and lifestyle of a community of tribals, primarily forest-gatherers, rich in the knowledge of traditional herbs and medicine. For, Madhya Pradesh (MP), the seams of its kitty already bursting with tigers, is about …
gondwanaland: supercontinent in geological history, of which India was a part. Gondwana ('Forest of the Gonds'): land of the Gond tribals and their powerful empire. A historic region which straddles the four states of Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh and Orissa. And famed for its traditional water harvesting structures. However, …
While a kata was a relatively big structure, there were several smaller systems like bandhs and mundas built all over western Orissa. A bandh is a four-sided tank excavated below the kata , from which it derives its water by percolation. Normally used for drinking purposes only, bandhs are invariably
"Development of modern, centralised system of irrigation is the main reason. Everywhere in the command area of the Hirakud dam, these structures lie defunct today,' says R S Rao, reader, department of economics, University of Sambalpur. His views are echoed in the villages. "When we get water, though not so …
nine tribes of southern Bihar are reportedly facing extinction due to rampant unplanned industrialisation in the Jharkhand region. Gautam S Rana, chairperson, environmental committee of the state legislative council, who has conducted a survey on tribes like the Asur, Birhor, Birijiya, Korwa, Malpahariya and Pahariya, said their populations have declined …
In 1985, Jodhpur experienced one of its worst droughts of the century. The city was on the verge of evacuation while its numerous baoris, instruments of its traditional self-sufficiency in water, lay neglected. The crisis served to bring forth a popular response. The Chand and Jalap baoris were cleaned up …
Wide variations exist in the annual sediment deposition under different physiographic settings. Nadis situated in older alluvial plains have the highest sedimentation rate, whereas those in the younger alluvial plains have the least. To take care of the capacity reduction of a nadi caused by sedimentation, villagers carry out dredging …
The present Water requirement of Jodhpur (estimated population in 1991: 900,000) it 27 million gallons per day (mgpd). The city gets 22.4 mgpd. Surface water reservoirs account for 55-60 per cent of the water supply. The major reservoirs, Jawai and Hemavas. in addition to supplying water to Jodhpur, also serve …
Bhawar Singh from Sindhi Colony in Jodhpur had drilled a borewell in the late '80s with the sole intention of selling water. Charging Rs 10 on an average for filling one tractor with water, this is his only source of income today. Since 1980-81, water has turned into a scarce, …
KIKRUMA is a nondescript village in India's remote northeast, inhabited by the Chakhesang tribals. Located at an altitude of 1,270 metres (m), 13 km from Pfutsero town in Phek district of Nagaland, the village comes under the town's rain-shadow. The entire village is situated on a flat ridge bounded by …
• FOREST LAND: A catchment area of about 1.5 ha or more is kept under natural vegetation upstream of the ponds to serve as a water source during monsoons. The slope of the catchment area is usually very steep. • WATER HARVESTING SYSTEM: Below the catchment area, water harvesting ponds …
According to J Kire, former director of the soil conservation department of Nagaland, the entire community participates in building terraces. A report in the Indian Journal of Hill Farming has this to say of the practice: "Area proposed for terracing is cleared by cutting and burning the jungle. The width …
DEFORESTATION in Pakistan has increased manifold in recent years. Over-grazing, taking over of forest land for cultivation and the increased demand for timber, have led to an increase in logging operations, which has resulted in the forest cover decreasing from 14 per cent to 5.2 per cent of the total …
environmentalists and Sarawak residents recently suffered a setback in the legal battle over the Bakun hydroelectric dam project when Malaysia's appeals court recently overruled a High Court environmental ruling against Ekran Bhd, the developer of the dam. The ruling has given Ekran the green signal for the construction of the …
