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 …
Hundreds of Dangaria Kandha tribal men and women joined a large group of anti-displacement activists of the Niyamgiri Suraksha Samiti atop the Niyamgiri hills in Odisha’s Kalahandi district on Sunday and burnt copies of the land acquisition Ordinance recently promulgated by the Narendra Modi Government. “Pro-corporate” The tribals and activists, …
Greenpeace India has faced a rough time since the National Democratic Alliance government came in. The Indian end of the international non-government organisation has advocated against any new coal projects in India for a while. But the one case that provided the NGO great mileage and has now irked the …
The tribals staying in the core or buffer areas are dependent on forests for their survival and this has hugely disturbed the ecosystem. Finding an alternate solution for this long-existing quandary, a group of local environmentalists conducted an experiment and gave a new meaning to fish farming methods in tribal …
Senior tribal leader, Jayram Gamit, has been "mysteriously picked up” by the cops from Tapi district under the Prevention of Anti-Social Activities Act (PASA Act) ahead of a major protest the organization he and another senior activist, Romel Sutariya of All India Union of Forest People has been working in …
Samantara led the anti-mining movement in Niyamgiri hill along with Dongaria Kandhas, inhabitants of the hill spread over Rayagada and Kalahandi districts The anti-mining activists have rejected former Union minister Jayanthi Natarajan's claim that Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi influenced her to deny environmental clearance to Vedanta Aluminimum Ltd (now …
Kichwa communities bar River Tigre, an Amazon tributary, with cables to stop oil company boats from passing and accuse government of turning a blind eye to contamination from oil operations in the forest Hundreds of indigenous people deep in the Peruvian Amazon are blocking a major Amazon tributary following what …
United under the banner of ‘Koraputia Jana Suakshya Sangh (KJSS)’, tribals held a demonstration at Semiliguda in Koraput district on Wednesday to protest against alleged infringement of their land rights. Environmental and social activists alleged that through the ordinance, the Central Government had attempted to dilute the Right to Fair …
Australia's indigenous Barngarla people have won a campaign, lasting nearly 20 years, for the law to recognise their right to traditional lands. The native title claim over a huge tract of land in South Australia has been mostly upheld by a federal court. Native titles are pre-colonial rights held by …
The State Government has rejected over as many as 1.45 lakh individual and community claims under the Forest Rights Act (FRA), 2006 till December last year. The State Government has informed the Union Ministry of Tribal Affairs that 1,45,225 individual claims, 228 community claims and 13 community forest right claims …
Tribal children of nine Scheduled V States including Odisha need to be given proper nutrition for their growth and development, opined experts attending a two-day long national-level conclave ‘Nourishing India’s Tribal Children’ organised by the Union Tribal Affairs Ministry, the Government of Odisha and the Unicef here on Thursday. Inaugurating …
Thousands of tribal people allegedly evicted from a tiger reserve in central India that inspired Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book must be allowed to return to their ancestral forest homes, said an indigenous rights group. Around 450 families - totaling up to 3,000 people - from the Baiga and Gond …
Since it came to power in May 2014, the NDA government has been working to do away with the need for such consent from tribal village councils Five coal blocks up for allocation and auction in the first phase could get stuck in a land conflict. A total of 20 …
122 tigers poached in the last five years Despite stringent measures to conserve tigers in protected reserves in the country, a report by National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) has noted that tiger poaching incidents have continued in the country. According to data available on the NTCA website, 78 tigers were …
There are virtually no takers for the 37 hydropower projects located in the “remote locations” in the five river basins of the Sutlej, Beas, Ravi, Chenab and Yamuna. The reasons: remote location, lack of data and location maps and unviable projects, claim Independent Power Producers (IPPs). The government got just …
Diabetes and hypertension is affecting at an alarming rate in both rural and urban populations in India and very few studies had been carried out among the tribal population. The objective of the study was to determine the prevalence rate of type 2 diabetes mellitus and hypertension and its associated …
This report is based on the employment and unemployment survey conducted in the 68th round of NSS during July 2011 to June 2012. This report presents information on selected aspects of employment and unemployment and some other features pertaining to people belonging to four social groups viz., Scheduled Tribe (ST), …
As the environment versus development debate continued to torment policy makers in 2014, the new government initiated the process of rewriting the rules of environmental governance in a bid to bring more clarity into the system. The NDA government appointed a committee under former cabinet secretary T S R Subramanian …
The National Democratic Alliance government at the Centre has suppressed the report of the High-Level Committee on the Status of Tribals. The report presents a scathing analysis of how development activities and strategies in India have increased the socio-economic gulf between tribals and rest of the citizens of India and …
The Philippines’ indigenous Ayta community has signed an agreement that paves the way for the construction of a pioneering renewable energy facility on their ancestral land in Subic Bay, north of Manila. Ayta Tribal Chieftain Conrado Frenilla and Ayta elder Bonifacio Florentino signed a memorandum of agreement on Dec. 12 …
The Kerala Cabinet accepted the demands of tribes people on Wednesday, paving the way for the settlement of their ‘stand-up’ agitation in front of the Secretariat. After Chief Minister Oommen Chandy announced the Cabinet decisions, tribal leader C.K. Janu said the strike would be withdrawn upon receiving the decisions in …
