Sumdwellers displaced for a cleaner Yamuna

Slums dumped out of sight

Polavaram — displaced and nowhere to go: Ineligible for rehabilitation, many in a fix

Several disqualified from rehabilitation process on absurd grounds, found DTE 

Pong dam eco-sensitive zone: Awaiting rehabilitation for over 50 years, not consulted for policy decision, say locals

Union environment ministry has created a draft policy to declare region eco-sensitive zone

Rules of engagement

Thirty years on, what does the Narmada Bachao Andolan teach us?

Centre flouts norms to allow Polavaram construction to resume

Mandatory public hearings are still pending in Odisha and Chhattisgarh

Land Bill: public mandate used to push private interests

Draft rehabilitation policy charts no new courses

The latest draft on rehabilitation intends to help people, literally

GoM clears Land Acquisition Bill

Makes compulsory approval of the gram sabhas for acquiring land in tribal areas

Omkareshwar dam: SC issues contempt notice to Madhya Pradesh over resettlement of oustees

Madhya Pradesh government ordered to follow rehabilitation policy comprehensively

Supreme Court says no to increasing Tehri reservoir level

Negates its earlier order that gave temporary permission to do so

New land acquisition bill will aggravate farmers' distress: legal experts

SC clears way for dam oustees to get land in Narmada Valley

But landless will not get it

Kovvada nuclear power plant will displace about 8,000 people

Andhra government declares five villages in Srikakulam district as project affected

Slum settlers along Bagmati face eviction, uncertain future

They demand alternate accommodation

Land bill gets diluted on way to Parliament

Bill provisions now favour government and industry, not farmers, say activists

UPA's development report card

A look at the progress of the Congress-led alliance's flagship programmes

MIHAN forced solution comes undone

Project-affected people to file petition for return of land

Land Bill gets new name and many amendments

States get freedom to decide whether land under multi-crop is to be acquired

How Delhi’s resettlement colonies have set a new standard for peripheralisation

Delhi’s resettlement colonies lie within the framework of a ‘planned city’; yet they receive a treatment separate from planned …

Polavaram — displaced and nowhere to go: Rehabilitation colonies are unliveable

Toilets overflow in R&R colonies, residents resort to open defecation; some claim they used their compensation money to get constructions fixed

Delhi intensifies demolition drive as G20 summit approaches; 3 lakh people affected, say activists

Demolitions have happened as early as 4 am; people are given little time before being evicted 

Savda Ghevra vs Delhi: How effective septage management differs even with the same city

Centre for Science and Environment did a comparative analysis on septage management in Delhi and a resttlement colony located on its border; here …

Illegal and unfair acquisition of mining land in Korba

SECL has been using loopholes in the law and sometimes even violating laws altogether to avoid compensation against acquired land

Jostling for jhuggi land

The Shakur Basti eviction drive calls for a thorough review of the railways’ mandate, politics of urban land and housing of urban poor

Mahanadi Coalfields land oustees to get compensation, resettlement and rehabilitation

Land acquired for mining in 1988; Compensation to be disbursed to 4 villages under the R&R Act, 2013