However, the court said “the mighty and the undeserving” would be shown no mercy. Asks States to file affidavits to show verification was fair The Supreme Court on Thursday stayed its February 13 order directing the eviction of lakhs of the Scheduled Tribes and other traditional forest-dwellers, whose claims for …
PONDA: Special Gram Sabhas were convened in Dharbandora taluka on Sunday to appoint Forest Rights Committees under the Scheduled Tribes and other traditional Forest Dwellers Act (recognition of Forest Rights Act 2006 and Rules 2007). Each committee comprises 15 members of which five members have to be from the ST …
Adivasi Kshema Samiti to intensify agitation The personnel of Forest Department and the police on Monday evicted a group of tribespeople, owing allegiance to the pro-CPI(M) Adivasi Kshema Samiti (AKS), who had encroached upon 17.65 hectares of vested forest at Thumbassery, near Makkiyad, under the North Wayanad Forest Division in …
JAIPUR: A survey report with quantifiable data on the backwardness of 82 tribes in the state was presented to the state government by the Institute of Development Studies, Jaipur. The report is a comparative study on the social, economic and educational status of more than 91,000 families. The report has …
JAIPUR: Over 150 people belonging to the Behrupia tribe fell ill, at least 10 of them seriously, after having a feast at a social get-together in Jamdoli under Kanota police station area on Monday night. Officials said some of the milk-products items were contaminated leading to the food-poisoning. While most …
A federal court judge on Friday denied a Chevron Corp bid to prevent Ecuadorean plaintiffs from collecting on an $18 billion damages award against the U.S. oil giant over pollution in the Amazon jungle. The oil company in November had asked Manhattan federal court judge Lewis Kaplan to freeze the …
Pakistan Premier Yousuf Raza Gilani has sought to blame an influx of Afghan refugees for persistence of polio in his country as Commonwealth leaders pledged to eradicate the crippling disease by announcing measures like a new $50-million funding. Mr Gilani made the remarks on the sidelines of the Commonwealth Heads …
PANJIM: State Government is likely to come out with a notification directing setting up of a committee to scrutinize the suggestions given and objections raised regarding the Forest Policy 2011, within a week. Forest Department had last month forwarded a formal request after state government agreed to screen the suggestions …
The Sonia Gandhi-led National Advisory Council (NAC) — at the initiative of which the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme was rolled out in UPA-I — is taking a fresh look at how to strengthen it. The NAC wants the scheme to move from its “relief work mode” to …
Fear of submergence haunts Kurturu, a village nestled in the Papi hills of the Eastern Ghats in Andhra Pradesh. In 2005, a band of officials, an unusual sight in this remote village in West Godavari district, visited the place and marked a rock. Then they broke the news about the …
Rural households having a member earning more than Rs 10,000 a month or anyone serving in a government or government-aided organisation or owning a landline phone will not be included in the below poverty line (BPL) category in the new poverty census being conducted by states. However, the new census, …
Given the fractured relationship between forest depts and forest-dwellers, involving tribal population in preparation of working plans is critical Indira Rajaraman / New Delhi May 1, 2010, 0:30 IST Given the badly fractured relationship between forest departments and forest-dwellers, involving the tribal population in the preparation of working plans is …
The intricate, intertwined forces driving global climate change are mirrored by similar complexity in the human response to it. That makes it nearly impossible to anticipate the stance of any one group based solely on a label such as nationality, race, or economic class. But there is ample evidence that …
Forests provide a number of goods and services to the people. The dependence is very high especially amongst the tribals who live close to nature and collect food, fuelwood, timber, bamboos, medicinal plants and other non-wood products from the forests. However, with the increasing socio-economic standard of the people, their …
Booker Prize winning writer Arundhati Roy and British human rights campaigner Bianca Jagger were among a group of high-profile figures who lent their support to a protest held here outside the offices of the mining company, Vedanta Resources, demanding that it withdraw its plans to construct a massive bauxite mine …
A comprehensive development plan costing Rs 2020.267 million has been launched to bring a maximum area under forest cover in the Fata. Out of this, Rs 453.97m is being spent during the current financial year. The strategy, devised for forest sector development, aims at rehabilitating denuded hills through extensive afforestation, …
Protesters in the Amazon basin have forced Peru's state energy company to shut its crude oil pipeline, a company official said on Monday as the government tries to end weeks of demonstrations over natural resources. Indigenous communities have blocked roads and waterways to pressure the government to revoke investment laws …
Protesters angry over oil and natural gas developments in Peru's resource-rich Amazon vowed on Friday to defy the government and step up demonstrations that have disrupted operations at energy companies. A private-sector source told Reuters that as many as 41 vessels serving energy companies are stuck along jungle rivers, unable …
Protesters upset over oil and natural gas developments in the resource-rich Amazon are threatening to choke energy supplies in northern Peru, the country's environmental minister said on Tuesday. Peru's government is encouraging investment in hopes of turning the country into a net oil exporter from a net importer. But some …
Peru's government, which is encouraging energy companies to develop the resource-rich Amazon, is considering creating five new reserves to protect jungle tribes that are living in voluntary isolation. Advocacy groups have been pressuring Peru to balance indigenous and environmental rights demands with those of foreign investors as the country tries …
