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Operation Saranda: from Maoists to Miners
Inside the dilapidated Tribal Research Museum in Ranchi, the state capital. Local activists complain the development plan has a clear mining interest. They are asking for implementation of constitutional rights guaranteed under the fifth schedule and progressive legislations like PESA whereby sale of tribal land without consent is deemed illegal. Photographs by: Sayantan Bera Also read: Between Maoists and minesOperation Saranda: from Maoists to Miners
Following the anti-Naxal drive, the central ministry of Rural Development (MoRD) announced a Rs 263 crore Saranda Action Plan in October 2011 to spruce up development for Ho tribals inside the forest. Jairam Ramesh, minister in charge of MoRD sees the action plan as a development model for other Maoist dominated areas. Photographs by: Sayantan Bera Also read: Between Maoists and minesOperation Saranda: from Maoists to Miners
Deep inside the Sal forests, the hills behind Kudliba village has been allotted to three companies for mining. The villages, inhabited by the Ho tribes will not be displaced, but the forests will disappear. Once a stronghold of Maoist insurgents, the Saranda forests, so claims the government, has been sanitized following operation Anaconda in August 2011. Photographs by: Sayantan Bera Also read: Between Maoists and minesOperation Saranda: from Maoists to Miners
A gateway to Saranda turns red due to iron ore dust. Spread over 800 sq km in Jharkhand’s West Singhbhum district, Saranda’s sal forests stand atop the largest untapped single deposit of iron ore in the country. Until now mining was limited to the periphery, but 19 new leases are in different stages of approval. Photographs by: Sayantan Bera Also read: Between Maoists and mines
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Odisha, Jharkhand mull iron ore e-auction
Issue Date: Feb 17, 2012
In a bid to counter rampant illegal mining, Odisha and Jharkhand, have decided to e-auction iron ore. The planning process is at its nascent stage, say state government officials. The measure will make the auctioning process transparent,” says a senior official from department of mines and geology in Bhubaneswar.
Food authority backtracks
Issue Date: Feb 15, 2012
Six states and a union territory feed their people milk that does not meet the standards set by India’s food regulatory body at all. Jharkhand, Bihar, West Bengal, Odisha, Chhattisgarh, Mizoram and Daman & Diu are the “100 per cent non-conforming” states. In Delhi, 70 per cent of the samples failed the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) test. Yet, the authority claims there is no danger in drinking the milk.
A million opportunities lost
Issue Date: Dec 15, 2011
This is the little known big story of India’s nationwide rural employment programme. In the past five years the programme has sought to create tanks, ponds, wells and revive traditional water conservation structures at a scale and pace not witnessed before in the country. Millions of people in the countryside seeking jobs under the programme embarked on building or reviving 3.4 million water conservation structures, according to the Union rural development ministry. This is unprecedented given that before 2005, all the public wage schemes together created just about two million structures in six decades.
