Blind to the cause

Rehabilitation authority to ignore controversial projects

Needs more teeth, say critics

The widely-criticised draft policy on rehabilitation and resettlement has a major loophole -- it does not provide for any legislative backing

Damned despair

Oustees of the Sardar Sarovar Project still languish in large numbers for a roof over their head

Forest rights

Adivasis draft an alternative forest bill and a rehabilitation policy to safeguard India's forests

Choose or else

The ecodevelopment project being implemented in Gir National Park has raked up a controversy on the issue of relocation of the native Maldhari …

Nowhere to go

The new land Bill will make it easier to displace the poor in the name of development, say experts

"The state cannot deprive people"

WALTER FERNANDES, who has worked extensively for tribes and on tribal issues, talks to SURYA SEN

Building to resist quakes

Land is not enough for rehabilitation

Eight million traditional artisans in the country are threatened by industrialisation

Terms of relief

Nuclear business

Tribals adamant

Down with the reservoir

Some respite

Villagers'woes

Mean inheritance

Scavengery continues to remain one of society's ills in spite of laws created to abolish it

Development offer

Clean-up drive

BANGLADESH

Malaysia

Panel on dams

Two Indians figure in the 12-member World Commission on Dams

Plans gone awry

In combative mood

Kudremukh tribals refuse to budge

Concept selling

Public pressure

Rehabilitation package for Polavaram modified