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 …
Landless dalits and adivasis have occupied parts of a corporate rubber plantation at Chengara in Kerala for five years. Despite being pressurised in various ways, they have held out, sticking to their demand of land for them to pursue livelihoods. None of the agreements so far reached with the state …
PANJIM: The government has pledged to implement the Forest Rights Act, 2005 from the year 2013, a decision which could go a long way in ensuring that forest dwelling tribes get ownership rights on the land that they live on. Replying during a discussion on demands for grants for Tribal …
SHILLONG: In a bid to pave the way for food and nutritional security in the region through improved varieties of popular tuber crops, the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) Research Complex for NEH Region, today held a workshop at the complex in Umiam, Ri-Bhoi District. The workshop which will …
The Society of Geoscientists and Allied Technologists (SGAT) has vehemently opposed Union tribal welfare minister V Kishore Chandra Deo’s demand for stoppage of bauxite mining in Eastern Ghats. “We strongly refute observations of the Union tribal welfare minister as these are not based on facts,” said B K Mohanty, advisor, …
A ruling by Supreme Court, which would have drastically curtailed the notorious ‘human safaris’ in the Andaman Islands is being ignored by the islands’ authorities. Earlier this month, Supreme Court imposed a 5-kilometer buffer zone around the Jarawa Reserve, to help reduce the exploitation of the tribe by tourists. The …
BHUBANESWAR: The State Government has decided to launch emergency medical ambulance service. Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Wednesday approved the scheme to be implemented by the Health and Family Welfare Department. The Chief Minister has directed the Department to ensure proper implementation of the scheme in inaccessible tribal pockets of …
The Ministry is proposing to make some amendments in the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Rules, 2008 to: lay down a procedure for identification or hamlets or settlements and process of consolidation of their lists; increase the mandatory tribal membership of Forest Rights Committees …
Welfare schemes being drawn up for tribals Forest Minsiter K.T. Pachamal said the State government was making efforts to conserve forests and expand forest areas. Giving away financial assistance to several beneficiaries at the Gudiyatham Forest Range office on Tuesday, the Minister said the forest expanse had shrunk during the …
After Nagri, it’s Dubalia, Rando, Patratu, Chutua and Sangrampur. A fresh controversy has broken out over acquisition of 256 acres in Kanke block, barely 15km from Ranchi, for constructing houses for the homeless poor. More than 300 villagers armed with traditional weapons laid siege to the Kanke block office on …
Aizawl: Under its New Land Use Policy (NLUP), Mizoram is laying emphasis on ending the age-old jhum shifting cultivation and has allocated Rs 410 crore in this year’s budget to enable about 30,000 more tribal families to shift to stable farming, a minister said on Tuesday. “In this year’s State …
Govt on Monday postponed a polio immunisation campaign in parts of its tribal belt, jeopardising the health of more than 350,000 children after the Taliban banned inoculations. Local Taliban and warlord Hafiz Gul Bahadur, whose followers are fighting Western troops in Afghanistan, banned the vaccinations in the north-western region of …
The Supreme Court today expressed concern over alleged illegal clinical trial of drugs in the country, saying its “unfortunate” that humans were being treated as “guinea pigs”. A bench headed by Justice R M Lodha pulled up the Centre and the Madhya Pradesh government for not filing their response on …
Stung by criticism that tribals and farmers are being uprooted to make way for industrial projects, the Orissa government has scaled down its land acquisition drive. Companies too have begun cutting down their project size to make it easier to go on stream. Take, for instance, Posco. The Korean steel …
New Delhi: All tourist operations within 5km of all 600-plus tiger reserves, national parks, sanctuaries and wildlife corridors in the country will have to fork out a minimum of 10% of their turnover as a “local conservation fee”. The fee will be used not only to protect wildlife areas but …
SHILLONG: The Ministry of Tribal Affairs, Government of India, is currently providing special attention to the issue of tribal development in the Northeastern States. The Ministry releases grants to the State Government under the various Central Sector and Centrally Sponsored Schemes. It also releases grants under the Scheme of Grant-in-Aid …
Over a period of last four years of implementation of the Act, some problems impeding the implementation of the Act in its letter and spirit have come to the notice of the Ministry of Tribal Affairs, such as, convening of Gram Sabha meetings at the Panchayat level resulting in exclusion …
Not To Implement Unesco Report Which Is Mandatory For Heritage Tag New D elhi: The government has warded off pressure from Unesco to implement the controversial Western Ghats report as a pre-condition to the ‘World Heritage’ tag. Western Ghats sites have been declared as World Heritage but without any additional …
Minister for Forests, Sports and Cinema K. B. Ganesh Kumar told the Assembly on Tuesday that the government proposed to take up programmes to regenerate forest cover. Replying to the debate on the demand for grants for forest, the Minister said that the Department was undertaking regeneration of natural vegetation …
KOLKATA, 10 JULY: Tribal people from West Bengal will visit their counterparts in Odisha, Sikkim and Uttar Pradesh and vice-versa for cultural exchanges and to share best practices in agriculture, animal husbandry, small-scale industries and timber collection. The move, initiated by the state's backward classes welfare department, is aimed at …
The State Government will plant more than 680 crore saplings on private lands in the next eight years, Forest Minister K.T. Pachamal has said. The government had come up with the initiative to increase the green cover as the State currently had a green cover of 21.76 per cent, he …
