Order of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of Romila Thapar & Others Vs Union of India & Others dated 29/08/2018 regarding arrest of activists for their alleged Maoist links. Apex Court directs that the activists be kept under house arrest at their own homes. The next date …
Not only are the Forest Rights Act and the Panchayats Extension to Scheduled Areas Act routinely violated in Chhattisgarh, the adivasis are also short-changed on legislative representation and reservations in government jobs. As the state cedes land to capital while reducing the adivasis to an ornamental presence, there is increasing …
A response to “A Rational Taxation System of Bidis and Cigarettes to Reduce Smoking Deaths in India” (EPW, 15 October 2011). It is important to first have better information on the production of tendu leaves and bidis, and then to correct the prices of inputs (including wages) if tax policies …
The Union government has cleared an external loan to finance part of the programme launched by the Ministry of Rural Development in left wing extremism-affected villages. The clearance is for a loan of $500 million from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to speed up construction of rural roads. Union Minister …
The Centre has decided to roll out a revised anti-Naxal action plan for states battling Left-wing extremism, marking a shift from the bullet approach towards building a holistic plan to protect the rights of tribals and forest-dwellers and improve grassroots policing. The action plan drawn up by the Union home …
Urges Montek to consider changes for effective implementation of projects in LWE-affected areas With an eye to ensure that the government’s development efforts are effective in the Left Wing extremistaffected areas, the rural development ministry is pushing to make block the basic unit and involve elected representatives in the rolling …
Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh has pointed to “operational” shortcomings in the government’s efforts to tackle the decades-old Maoist insurgency through developmental work and urged greater political involvement to deal with it more effectively. The minister made the suggestion in a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh after touring Left-wing …
State has been directed to set up a separate development authority The Centre has asked the Jharkhand government to show urgency on both security and development matters in the Left-Wing-Extremism-affected Saranda forest. The State has been directed to set up a separate development authority to carry forward its initiative to …
Personnel of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) deployed in Naxal-affected areas are facing a threat as grave as bullets — mosquitoes. In the past 10 months — January to October — at least 17 CRPF personnel have died due to malaria and dengue in the left-wing ex-tremism (LWE)-affected states. …
Bhubaneswar: Receiving flak from the home ministry on the tardy utilisation of funds, the Odisha government has decided to constitute a state-level committee for regular monitoring of the implementation of the Integrated Action Plan (IAP), a hundred-per cent Centrally-assisted scheme for the Maoist-affected districts. According to planning and coordination minister …
Integrated Watershed Management Programme, a Rural Development Ministry Scheme under which the Government facilitates water harvesting, potable water and water sanitation and other ecological activities in the rural hinterlands, will be incorporated in guidelines of Integrated Action Plan. The IAP, started in 2010, is aimed to improve governance, provide better …
PANJIM: Claiming that the upcoming Mines and Minerals Regulation and Development (MMRD) Bill 2011 will be deterrent to the mining industry in Goa, industry players will be placing their views before Central Government, including proposal for amendment in the bill. The mining firms have decided to participate in the convention …
Bhubaneswar: Union home minister P Chidambaram will arrive here on Wednesday to review the Maoist-related situation and the implementation of various Centrally-sponsored welfare schemes in areas affected by the Maoists. According to official sources, Chidambaram, who is scheduled to reach Bhubaneswar at around 9.30 am, will stay for only three …
Purulia, Nov. 6: A Maoist couple in Purulia today became the first to surrender after Mamata Banerjee announced a revised rehabilitation package in August. Some rebel sources suggested that the two might have been persuaded to give themselves up by police who had “picked them up” a couple of months …
AICC general secretary Rahul Gandhi landed in Varanasi on Tuesday morning and went on a tour of villages in Naxal-affected Chandauli and Mirzapur districts of eastern UP. He held chaupals and interacted with the villagers, asking them about their problems, implementation of Centrally funded schemes, especially MGNREGA and whether payments …
Berhamupur: Chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Thursday laid the foundation-stone for the proposed anti-Maoist Vijayawada-Ranchi corridor at Aska in Ganjam district. The corridor would go a long way in solving certain basic problems affecting not only some regions but the entire state, he said during his one-day visit to the …
Ranchi, Oct. 27: The Planning Commission has set a December deadline for the Jharkhand government to complete a majority of the projects launched under the Centre’s Integrated Action Plan (IAP) in the 14 Naxalite-hit districts of the state. Planning Commission senior consultant Ranjan Chatterjee, who arrived in Ranchi this morning, …
Apart from ensuring the immediate appointment of 18,000 panchayat development officers and as many junior engineers, the Centre has drawn up a blueprint to provide jobs to three-lakh youth in the 60 left wing extremist affected districts in the country. Union Minister of Rural Development Jairam Ramesh, in his consolidated …
The rural development ministry is going to tap the potential in the Indian private sector and other quarters of organisations not in the ambit of the government to help implement and monitor rural programmes in naxal-affected districts. For this, minister for rural development Jairam Ramesh has proposed a Prime Minister’s …
Jairam Ramesh finalises action plan for Saranda forest area in Jharkhand The United Progressive Alliance government on Monday chalked out its first multi-winged operation to tackle the problem of Naxalism through development programmes, implemented under the protection of Central security forces. Union Minister of Rural Development Jairam Ramesh finalised the …
