Plans for Andhra's scheduled castes, tribes remain on paper
No vision, no planning, no adequate allocation and utilisation of funds, says Cabinet panel report still under wraps
Classification under SC, ST categories: Recognition needs to go beyond govern-analytics
Bill extending ST status to several communities raises questions regarding the category and its applicability in contemporary times
Exclusive: Did a minister cite a non-existent study in her Parliament reply
Renuka Singh Saruta had attributed a study to IIT-Delhi on COVID-19 in tribal areas; but the institution does not have it
Rise in atrocities against forest-dwellers during COVID-19 crisis, flags report
Union Ministry of Tribal Affairs should create a COVID-19 response cell to monitor issues and provide support, it said
Uttarakhand Van Gujjars allege forest officials assaulted women; probe underway
Rajaji National Park area villagers allege they tried to lodge two FIRs, but police did not register them
Forest depts as nodal agency for community forest resources: A political blunder
The Chhattisgarh government issued an order on May 31, making the state forest department the nodal agency for Community Forest Resource Rights
Victims of development
Schemes launched by the government in Attappady have reduced the area’s tribals to wage labourers and has disempowered them
The land betrayal
Attappady's tribals have been alienated from their land by settlers as well as the government. This is the root cause of their poor health status …
'Mainland tribal people also need autonomous councils'
Autonomous councils in the Northeast are the reason why people there did not lose access to land and forests, says Virginius Xaxa, head of …
Do tribal lives matter? Life expectancy, health indicators stay poor in Madhya Pradesh
Malnutrition in the tribal population is 1.5 times higher than the national average
As told to Parliament (July 18, 2019): Low dietary intake in rural & urban India
All that was discussed in the House through the day
How many Indians are pastoralists? No official data, but report says 13 mln
A figure of 35 million is often quoted, but without a source, claims report
A lame duck Schedule of the Constitution
The true potential of the Fifth Schedule was diluted right at its conception
Environment ministry reiterates its stance on FRA compliance in forest land diversion
MoEFCC letter sent two days before SC stayed its order on rejected FRA claims
Bamboo a minor forest produce: Ramesh
Forest departments had been refusing the control over bamboo by forest dwellers
Kawal sanctuary in Andhra Pradesh declared tiger reserve
State government claims rights of the forest communities will be protected
Child sex ratio worsening faster among STs: census report
Data also shows higher marginationalisation of the country's Scheduled Tribes
Seshachalam firing: ST commission seeks report from Andhra Pradesh
A team from the commission will visit the spot to ascertain facts
How COVID-19 made forest rights battle tougher for Tharu women
The Adivasi women of Lakhimpur Khiri in eastern UP show resilience
Odisha pays scant heed to tribal ministry's directions on mining for Vedanta
State invites forest rights claims from only a dozen villages on Niyamgiri hill slope
Rantal: A settlement’s journey from invisibility to identity
Displaced from Bihar in 1980, a group of 42 Munda families have collectively established the organic village in Odisha
Rights ensured under FRA are not just ‘enjoyment rights’
The misreading of the forest title deed, has become a stumbling block to the entitlements of title holders
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