“The movement and the demand for empowering gram sabhas in Fifth Schedule areas was well within constitutional provisions.”
“However,” he added, “If the gram sabha tries to reject the assembly or the Lok Sabha, it would defeat the purpose of the Constitution.” Read more
Courtesy: The Times of India
NEW DELHI: The National Commission for Scheduled Tribes (NCST) is all set to recommend to the Centre to come up with a special provision for the development of Scheduled Tribes (STs) through an Act.
No law has been enacted to regulate the timely implementation of welfare programmes for STs or for protecting them from external pressure to compromise with their lands and livelihood, according to the Commission. Read more
Courtesy: The New Indian Express
Their bulldozers, dredges and high-pressure hoses tore into miles of land along the river, polluting the water, poisoning the fish and threatening the way life had been lived in this stretch of the Amazon for thousands of years. Read more
Courtesy: nytimes.com
Indu Netam (IN) is the founding member of “Adivasi Ekta Mancha” and an activist of the movement against illegal land grab in Chhattisgrah. Swaraj Das and Sumit Ghosh listened to her take on the politics of Chhattisgarh… Read more
Courtesy: Jabardakhal
Congress leader and Rajya Sabha member Jairam Ramesh has written to the President Ramnath Kovind arguing against the dilution of the Central land acquisition law by state laws. The former rural development minister has argued that states have used article 254 (2) ‘indiscriminately’ to frame state land acquisition laws that are in contravention with the Central law. Read more
Courtesy: The wire
