Union Budget 2015-16 reduces funds for SCs and STs

Allocations made in budget 2015-216 way short of Plan Outlays for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes

Dalits and nutrition: Where is the catch up?

The performance of nutrition indicators amongst Dalits is improving, it is nowhere near the catch-up pace

Righting old wrongs

On the third Sampurna Vimukti Diwas, to mark Mahasweta Devi's birth anniversary, we reproduce this blog on Constitutional protection to Nomadic, …

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From the blurbs

Forest dwellers’ rights: Conservationists started it, SC stayed it

Read this to abreast yourself with the whole issue of Forest Rights Act and tribals’ rights that has made its way to the Supreme Court

A look at the changing scenario of Bihar politics

Of late, women have become the it factor in elections. Caste also plays a dominant role in voter polarisation

Life beyond the pale

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Use revenue-sharing model for development, land acquisition

Access to village commons improved livelihoods but some recent state policies seek to grab them

Tribal families that fled Baster during Salwa Judum years return

24 families return to their roots after spending 13 years in Andhra as agricultural labourers

Newly amended SC/ST Prevention of Atrocity Act fails to bring justice to land grab victims in Chhattisgarh

8 months after 4 Gharghora villages filed complaints against TRN Energy and Mahaveer Energy for wrongfully grabbing their land, the police …

Local politics

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Punjab's marginalised communities struggle for their right to cultivate common lands

People from the scheduled caste have once protested against big landlords who have taken control of fertile common lands and they are all set to …

Zero hour

Caste discrimination at work place, says ILO report

Uttarakhand Assembly Elections 2022: What role will caste play in the hills

Why are Dalits not as assertive in Uttarakhand as in Uttar Pradesh despite forming 19% of the population

‘Independent India worse for tribals’

Widely respected in the civil society, B D Sharma spent his life fighting for the rights of tribals for about four decades. Excerpts from a …

The deprived lot

Andhra Pradesh fails to allocate funds stipulated for Scheduled Castes and Tribes, says Cabinet panel

The right to develop

A UNDP report links democracy with a better human development scenario

BPL: a difficult line to draw

In short

The Dalit experts

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Andhra Pradesh extends support to SC women farmers for natural farming push

The government will use its extensive network of women’s self-help groups to encourage the transition.  

Long road to justice

The new land acquisition bill promises much but has little to ensure delivery

Miles to go