The Dongria Kondh tribe of Niyamgiri Hills are among the best conservationists in the world. Known for the spirited defence of their forested habitat against short-sighted industrialisation, they have through millennia evolved a lifestyle that is in perfect harmony with nature. Across India, there are scores of indigenous people who …
All-India Congress Committee general secretary Rahul Gandhi on Thursday admitted he had played a crucial role in the rejection of forest clearance to the Niyamgiri bauxite mines and assured local tribals here that he would continue to fight to protect their interests. Mr Gandhi, whose visit to this remote and …
Prafulla Das LANJIGARH: All-India Congress Committee general secretary Rahul Gandhi on Thursday told the Dongria Kondh tribals living in and around the Niyamgiri hills in Orissa that his work as their
Debabrata Mohanty Ijirupa(Lanjigarh, Kala handi Two years ago when Rahul Gandhi visited Ijirupa village, he promised the Dongaria Kondhs and Kutia Kondhs— the two primitive tribal groups—as well as other people living in around Niyamgiri mountains that he would bat for their rights in Delhi. “When Rahul came in May …
SUNIL JAIN Protecting a mountain won't help, urbanisation and education will Talk about timing. Two days before the Congress party's crown prince is to descend upon the Niyamgiri hills, his favourite minister Jairam Ramesh cancels the mining clearance for the Vedanta refinery . So a triumphant Mr Gandhi can go …
NEW DELHI: After a long drawn -out consultation process, the Union government has finally pronounced its verdict against Vedanta Alumina's $1.7-billion plan to mine bauxite in the Niyamgiri Hills of Orissa.
Nistula HebbarNew Delhi: When All India Congress Committee (AICC) general secretary Rahul Gandhi visits Lanjigarh, the site of the Niyamgiri Hills in Orissa
The Forest Advisory Committee (FAC) considered the report submitted by the four member committee constituted by the Ministry of Environment and Forests vide its order dated 29.06.2010 for investigation into a proposal submitted by the Government of Orissa for diversion of 660.749 ha forest land in favour of Orissa Mining …
If there is a single conclusion the Ministry of Environment and Forests can arrive at based on the report of the four-member committee led by Planning Commission member N.C. Saxena on the proposed open cast mining in Orissa's forested Niyamgiri hills, it is this: drop it. The violation of laws …
Bhubaneswar: Orissa government Tuesday lodged its protest against the Saxena Committee report on Vedanta issue. The state government, in a letter to the Union ministry of environment and forest, has asserted that Orissa is second in the country in the implementation of forest laws and rules. It also said that …
After one stop-work order on the Rs 54,000-crore Posco project, a four-member panel appointed by the Union ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) has dealt a blow to yet another big-ticket investor in Orissa, the London-based Vedanta Resources Ltd.The committee, chaired by N C Saxena, who is also member of …
This expert panel report on Vedanta's bauxite mining project in Orissa submitted to MoEF on August 16, 2010 says that the company must not given permission for this project as it has illegally occupied forest land andwill also threaten survival of local tribes. <br>The proposed mining lease (PML) area, which …
Hasan Suroor LONDON: Rights activists, including actors from James Cameron's film Avatar that highlights the threat to environment, held a protest outside the venue of the annual general meeting of the mining company Vedanta here on Wednesday, against its controversial plans to mine tribal land in Orissa regarded sacred by …
Priscilla Jebaraj NEW DELHI: The Attorney-General has given the government a free rein to refuse forest clearance for Vedanta Aluminium's bauxite mining proposal in the Niyamgiri Hills of Orissa. The project has been put on hold, while a committee led by NAC member N.C. Saxena examines how it would impact …
Vedanta Aluminium is bracing itself for a fresh round of trouble. Their plans to mine bauxite from the Niyamgiri hills in the Kalahandi district of Orissa have reached a fresh set back with the ministry of environment & forests (MoEF) having set up a four member committee headed by National …
NEW DELHI: Dongria Kondhs of Lanjigarh in Orissa may have received some respite, with the government setting up yet another committee to reconsider how a proposed Vedanta mine in the area could affect the tribe. On Wednesday, the Environment and Forests Ministry constituted the four-member committee to make recommendations on …
Nearly 8,000 of the Dongria Kondh Adivasis, who revere the Niyamgiri mountain as their king and god, fear displacement and disruption of their centuries-old culture once the company gets the clearance to mine the hills. Niyamgiri in Orissa is all set to become a scene of local community resistance to …
Kalpana Pathak / Mumbai June 14, 2010, 0:44 IST The estimated $3-bn Vedanta University was to start Phase-I by mid-2011 but is facing stiff opposition from locals. The Anil Agarwal Foundation
Book>> Sacrificing People: Invasion of a Tribal Landscape • by Felix Padel • Orient Blackswan • Rs 395 Not so far in the past, I as a standard sixth student in a government school in Orissa’s Phulbani district—now split into Baudh and Kandha-mal—lived the essence of Felix Padel’s book ‘Sacrifi-cing …
