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Displacement
Coastal flyway to flatten 16 villages
Issue Date: Dec 31, 2009
people living in the fishing villages along the Chennai coast have used the Right to Information (rti) Act to find out the real intent behind inducements offered to them by the government. They discovered the state highway authorities plan to build a 9.7 km elevated road along the beach by ploughing through 16 villages that fall in the way.
Madhya Pradesh gets procedural rap
Issue Date: Dec 15, 2009
the Madhya Pradesh government has not rehabilitated the majority of the villagers who will be displaced by the controversial Maheshwar dam on the river Narmada in Khargone district. Construction of the dam is nearly complete but only a few families have been given alternative land.
FIR against dam activists
Issue Date: Nov 15, 2009
police have booked villagers and anti-dam activists who disrupted a public hearing in Uttarakhands Chamoli
district on October 13. The state pollution control board (spcb) had organized the hearing in Kulsari village to get
public views on the 250 MW Devsari hydroelectric project on the Pinder river, a tributary of Alakananda.
The project, proposed by Satluj Jal Vidyut Nigam, will displace 491 families. Angry villagers and activists did not allow the public hearing to
After SEZs, nuclear power parks
Issue Date: Nov 15, 2009
mango orchards in Gujarats Bhavnagar district and paddy fields in Andhra Pradeshs Srikakulam district will
disappear under nuclear power parks that will have eight power plants each. The government approved the projects in the last week of
September.
The US India Business Council (usibc), a trade group from Washington that lobbied hard for the sites, is upbeat.
Dear friends
Issue Date: Sep 15, 2009
Please accept my greetings
I am a Dongria Kondh and take pride in my identity. I live in the Niyamgiri hills. The hills are also the abode of our gods. It never occurred to us or our ancestors that our home or way of living would one day come under threat. And such a time is upon us. We do not know what will happen to us when Vedanta's machines dig up the hills we live in.
Court rules in favour of tribals
Issue Date: Sep 15, 2009
Orders rehabilitation of 900 families affected by Man dam
for 12 years, tribal families displaced by Man dam in Madhya Pradesh have been fighting for rehabilitation. On
August 11, the Indore bench of the Madhya Pradesh High Court gave them relief by ordering the state to provide two hectares of agricultural land
From the blurbs
Issue Date: Aug 31, 2009
India's Turn, Understanding the Economic Transformation by Arvind Subramanian, Oxford University Press, Rs 295
Post-liberalization Indian economy is the staple of news, analysis and media buzz in India and abroad. But what is so special about
India's pattern of economic development? Are India's public institutions deteriorating or improving? What is India's economic future? The set of essays answer these questions.
Beyond Relocation, The Imperative of Sustainable Resettlement, Edited by Renu Modi, Sage Publications, Rs 850
Cost of irrigation 15,000 people
@AparnaPallavi1 Issue Date: Aug 31, 2009
14 villages in Vidarbha to drown as authorities hurry dam project ahead of elections
Downstream of India
Issue Date: Jul 15, 2009
Bangladesh protests dam in Manipur
sunamgonj in Bangladesh, a few kilometres from the border with India, looks stirred up. On June 21, the town
citizenry gathered at the public library to listen to five speakers from India's northeastern state Manipur and a social activist from Dhaka. The
