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 ministry of environment and forests on Wednesday granted forest clearance to the Mahan coal block spread over 1,082 hectares of prime forest in the Singrauli district of Madhya Pradesh. This coal block was denied clearance four times by the Forest Advisory Committee, who had cited the presence of a …
Thousands from all over India set to march to Delhi to demand their own land Dhanalakshmi, a 22-year-old from Paliyar hill tribe of Tamil Nadu, is a long way from home. At 7 a.m. this Wednesday she will join nearly 60,000 other landless poor, adivasis and dalits who have streamed …
Efforts of Jairam and Jyotiraditya to talk them out of it fail Dhanalakshmi, a 22-year-old from the Paliyar hill tribe of Tamil Nadu, is a long way from home. At 7 a.m. on Wednesday, she will join about 60,000 other landless poor, Adivasis and Dalits who have streamed into Gwalior …
India’s Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) is the largest public works employment project in the world. Its most direct poverty reduction pathway is through boosting employment and income for the poor. How effectively this direct transfer mechanism reduces poverty turns fundamentally on the degree to which MGNREGS …
Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government today announced to provide land to all landless adivasis in tribal sub-plan (TSP) blocks by 2016-17 even as members of the Tribes Advisory Council (TAC) expressed concern over non-amendment of Odisha Reservation of Vacancies (ORV) Act. The announcement was made by chief minister Naveen Patnaik here …
The first meeting of the Group of Ministers on a proposed land acquisition law succeeded in narrowing down some of the differences of various ministries though a few contentious issues remain resolved. A watered down draft law put forward by the Rural Development Ministry had already addressed some of the …
JOWAI: Unauthorised checking of labour licenses by certain NGOs in Jaintia hills have badly affected coal mine owners, who have claimed that such checking has led to shortage of manpower in their respective mines. Coal traders allege that checking of labour license and other documents of inter-state migrant labourers has …
Tribal Min Slams Guv For ‘Abdicating Constitutional Responsibility’ Subodh Ghildiyal TNN New Delhi: The Union tribal affairs ministry has directed the Andhra Pradesh government to cancel mining leases in Vishakhapatnam for violating land laws protecting STs, a move that can trigger confrontation between the Centre and the Congressruled state government. …
2 yrs have elapsed since state had demanded free power in Sep 2010 but Centre is yet to respond Odisha is sore over the Centre's apathy towards its demand for allocation of free power from coal-fired power plants and power generated from coal washery based rejects. Two years have elapsed …
MHOW: Landless tribals, who protested against their continued neglect by taking over about 300 acres of forest land in Junapani area near the famous Patalpani waterfall on Saturday night, left the area after assurance by officials on Monday morning. The tribals had felled large number of trees and cleared about …
MHOW: Seeking their right to cultivate on forest land about 400 tribals from the villages of Chordiya, Sind Baroda and Bhagora villages of Mhow tehsil have moved to encroach and clear forest near Patalpani waterfall to make it suitable for cultivation from Saturday night. The tribals have encroached about 300 …
Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh on Sunday said solution to internal security threat does not lie merely in weeding out Naxals in security operations. Ramesh had called a group of Gandhians and activists working in Naxal-affected areas here to take home an 11-point charter of measures for implementation. The …
Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh on Thursday called for fast-track courts to hasten the settlement of land rights of tribals. Addressing the state revenue ministers’ conference on modernisation of land records, the minister said the issue of fast-track land courts would be taken up with the law ministry soon.
Brikesh Singh on his journey into Junglistan. Coal mining has affected the forests including the tribal communities, and our national animal, the tiger, and also other living beings dependent on our forests. Now the coal mining companies have their eyes on some of India's most bio-diverse forests in Central and …
Whereas the draft of the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Amendment Rules, 2012 were published, as required by sub-section (1) of section 14 of the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006 (2 of 2007) under the notification …
RTI activist Ajay Dubey of Madhya Pradesh, who shot into prominence with his Supreme Court petition asking for better monitoring of tiger reserves, feels he was justified in having sought redressal from the highest court. “Madhya Pradesh had 700 tigers in 2000 but their numbers are down to 257,” said …
Two of the world's last uncontacted tribes are under threat from oil exploration deep into the heart of the Amazon forest in Ecuador, according to conservationists, who say this may indirectly add to the pressure on wildlife. The Tagaeri and the Taromenane – who have fought off illegal loggers and …
Forest Department Set To Lose Monopoly Over 10k Cr Annual Business New Delhi: Environment minister Jayanthi Natarajan has overruled objections from her officials to break the forest bureaucracy’s monopoly over the annual Rs 10,000 crore bamboo trade and declared it a ‘minor forest produce’ instead of a ‘tree’ under forest …
For the first time, a district-level grievance redressal authority to hear complaints arising from abuse of power, especially by the police and forest officials, is taking shape in Madhya Pradesh on the orders of the Supreme Court. The state government last week issued a notification to set up such an …
