Order follows Andaman and Nicobar Administration’s January 17 notification The Supreme Court on Monday banned tourists from taking the Andaman Nicobar Trunk Road that passes through the area where the Jarawas live. The road is used to reach the Limestone Cave. The court has already banned all commercial and tourism …
Order follows Andaman and Nicobar Administration’s January 17 notification The Supreme Court on Monday banned tourists from taking the Andaman Nicobar Trunk Road that passes through the area where the Jarawas live. The road is used to reach the Limestone Cave. The court has already banned all commercial and tourism …
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 …
The Supreme Court has directed the Andaman & Nicobar administration to implement the Jarawa buffer zone notification in letter and spirit. The court’s August 1 directive refers to the administration’s 2007 notification creating a 5 km buffer around the Jarawa Reserve where no commercial activities would be allowed. But there …
The longstanding dilemma of how to best ensure the survival of one of India’s extant prehistoric peoples—the Jarawas of the Andaman islands—and their traditions is again occupying centrestage. A controversial proposal to bring these people into the mainstream, that was to be taken up for discussion in June by the …
THE government has cleared the decks for creating a buffer zone around the Jarawa reserve in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. The Jarawas are one of the indigenous peoples of the islands with a population of 273. An amendment to the Andaman and Nicobar (Protection of Aboriginal Tribals) Regulation Act …
On how the project began In 2001, Anvita Abbi, a professor at JNU (Jawaharlal Nehru University), was working on a project with the Max Planck Institute to study the languages spoken by the settler communities in the Andamans. I was a researcher with the project. That is when I first …
Priscilla Jebaraj NEW DELHI: Forget all those wildlife safaris promising glimpses of lions and tigers. Some tour operators in the Andamans are offering more
Port Blair bench allows resort that may endanger Jarawas THE Calcutta High Court has cleared the construction of a holiday resort near the forest area reserved for the threatened Jarawa tribe in South Andamans. The Andaman administration had appealed against building the resort saying it was within the five-kilometre buffer …
For centuries the Jarawa tribe were notorious for using bows and arrows to kill any intruder into their jungle home, deep in the interior of a tropical island. Now, however, their days as feared warriors are over and the Jarawa - until recently one of Asia
though not in the near future, the Jarawa tribe in the Andaman and Nicobar islands may be in for some respite. Officials are planning to stop use of the first stretch of the Andaman Trunk Road (atr) that connects south Andaman with the north and middle Andaman islands while passing …
R K Bhattacharya Former director, Anthropological Survey of India, and member of the Expert Committee appointed by the Calcutta High Court. In the report submitted to the court in 2003, he says: "
The Indian government should step in to protect the Jarawa tribe of the Andaman islands, who are now in danger of being wiped out by settlers invading their territory, said activists of Survival International. The London-based human rights group working for indigenous people held a vigil in front of the …
