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Rehabilitation
Long road to justice
Issue Date: Feb 15, 2013
With most political parties having set their sights on the 2014 national elections, the Congress-led UPA government is surely hoping for a repeat of the 2009 miracle. A good part of the credit for the 2009 victory has been given to progressive legislation like the employment guarantee Act. It is no surprise then that the Congress is looking at more such pieces of legislation before the country goes to the polls.
Wang-Marathwadi dam protest called off
Issue Date: Aug 4, 2012
Residents in Maharashtra's Satara district who are affected by the Wang-Marathwadi dam have managed to get their major demands fulfilled after a protracted fight for rehabilitation rights. The villages in Patan tehsil had declared a jal satyagraha in mid-July and refused to budge from the dam's submergence area unless their demands were fulfilled. Now, the government has agreed to compensate the affected villages after conducting a survey.
@sayantanbera Tribal fishers to move court after one of them is killed by forest staff in Pench National Park
Issue Date: Jul 6, 2012
Tribal people shifted out of the Pench National Park on the Madhya Pradesh-Maharashtra border are leading a perilous life ever since they were evicted 10 years ago. They have no means of earning a living, and when they enter the forest to fish in the Pench reservoir they are fired at by forest guards. The latest in the series of incidents was the brutal killing of a fisher in the reservoir on July 1 when forest department staff shot him repeatedly with air guns and allegedly rammed their boat against him when he fell into the water.
Prize for tiller, loss for industry
Issue Date: Jun 15, 2012
THE STATE should never acquire land for ventures that involve any element of profit. This is one of the radical recommendations made by a parliamentary panel in its report on the Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Bill of 2011.
Submitted on May 17 by the Parliamentary Standing Committee for Rural Development, the report proposes complete overhaul of provisions in the Bill (see table).
On shaky ground
Issue Date: Mar 31, 2009
Alok Kumar Gupta
Nearly half a million people living in and around the Jharia coalfield in Jharkhand have to be shifted to control underground fires. But the government has no sound strategy for their rehabilitation and the people have no trust in the government
1,620.361 ha of discontent
Issue Date: Jul 31, 2008
Brazil rejected posco; why is Orissa so interested
South Korean steel giant posco's proposed steel plant hangs in virtual limbo. Popular resistance by the posco Pratirodh Sangram Samiti has rendered land acquisition for the Rs 51,000 crore project--hailed as a foreign direct investment coup--quite impossible.
Reservoir of dams
Issue Date: May 15, 2008
Once you reach Lower Dibang Valley in Arunachal Pradesh, you know you have stepped into the shadowy side of "shining" India--the cell phone stops catching signals, the roads are worn out and the electricity supply, erratic. If you drive 40 km out of its district headquarters Roing to Nizam Ghat and then trek for three hours in Mishmi hills, you will reach Pather Camp, a nowhere destination in absolute wilderness. A helipad is the last thing you will expect here. Yet there it stands, a testimony to the importance of this place.
Rising sea levels and tidal erosion eating up Sunderbans
Issue Date: Jan 15, 2007
For the past 15 years or so, Rabindranath Das has been watching the ground slip away from beneath his feet. Back in the 1990s, his family had about 3.5 hectares (ha) of paddy fields along Ghoramara island's northwestern shores. But every year, especially during the monsoons, the Hooghly's strong undercurrents would erode a bit more of the riverbank's slopes, triggering sudden collapses of large sections of the bank.
