Former Programme Manager, Environmental Governance (Community Support and Mining Programme), Centre for Science and Environment, New Delhi
Use DMF funds effectively to fight hunger and child malnutrition
The money provides enormous scope to scale up intervention and meet national and SDG targets at the time of a slipping hunger index
Let people-centric natural resource governance be the new regime’s agenda
India must strengthen the mechanisms of natural resource management that is people-centric and sustainable to ensure economic and social stability
Mining in Jharkhand threatens locals in their own land
Residents of the state’s mining areas are unemployed and are threatened of being jailed when they ask for work
Districts must identify mining-affected people to keep DMF funds targeted
Not identifying them deprives potential beneficiaries of nearly Rs 29,000 crore