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FeaturesIndustry and communities clash in Jharkhand
Jharkhand went on an MoU-signing spree with industry a few years ago. Now these industries are on the back foot, facing strong opposition from local adivasis. Adivasis are not beggars, they say, rejecting the state R&R policy which requires corporations to give 1% of their annual profits to adivasi landowners whose lands have been acquired More... Breach of land laws in Jharkhand45 adivasi families were duped into selling their lands near Bokaro, Jharkhand, lured by promises of jobs in a garment factory that was never built. This is only one of thousands of cases of adivasi land alienation in Jharkhand, 100 years after the Chhotanagpur Tenancy Act prohibited transfer of adivasi lands to non-adivasis More... Creating the common wealth?A survey of 450 construction worker households across 15 construction sites in Delhi and its surrounds – many of them building infrastructure for the 2010 Commonwealth Games, on which the Delhi government plans to spend Rs 7,000 crore -- reveals a squalid tale of poverty, exploitation and ill health More... No pattas, no rightsEverywhere you go in Ganjam district of Orissa you meet people displaced from lands they had farmed for generations. With no land records in their possession they were displaced for development projects or forest protection. Decades later they continue to survive on forest produce, fishing and wage labour, battling the forest department every inch of the way More... 'Our old life is lost, the new one never materialised'The process of relocation for Ban Gujjars living inside the Rajaji National Park in Uttarakhand began in 1998 when around 1,213 families were moved to Pathri and Gaindikhatta. Ten years on, the buffalo herders have lost most of their livestock and with it their traditional livelihoods and customs More... Granite industry bluesThe granite industry in Rajasthan has been growing at 50% annually. But this growth has serious social and environmental costs. For one, water sources are being depleted, forcing farmers to become labourers in the granite industry More... Love's labour lostThe luminescent marble of the Taj Mahal is said to have come from Makhrana, a quaint mining town in the state of Rajasthan. But though Makhrana marble can compete with the best in the world, the region is an ecological and economic disaster, thanks to the Rajasthan government’s misguided mining policies More... Buying land from the rich to distribute to the poorKrishnammal and Sankaralingam Jagannathan's years of working for land and livelihood rights for the poor in Tamil Nadu has won them the 2008 Right Livelihood Prize, also known the Alternative Nobel. The Stockholm-based Foundation says the award is recognition "for two long lifetimes of work dedicated to realising in practice the Gandhian vision of social justice and sustainable human development" More... How the adivasi became a bonded labourerThis is the story of Khaliya Sabar who once lived happily in the forest village of Kiribiri in Ganjam district, Orissa. And of what happened to him and 300 other families when they were evicted from the village by forest rangers More... Letter from Dhaka: A fishing taleBangladeshi fishermen have fished in the country’s huge inland waterbodies for generations. How, in just a decade, did they come to be denied the right to fish? How and why did entire villages, their way of life, their culture, their livelihoods, crumble? Khademul Islam describes the battle over water rights More... Red-chilli magicSelf-help groups in Betul district, Madhya Pradesh have a new confidence as they augment their agricultural income with small business practices such as trading in red chillies and making rooftiles More... Migrate – or starveTikamgarh, in Madhya Pradesh, has been experiencing its third successive year of drought. Migration and contract labour is the only option. These are stories of families torn apart by forced migration, deserted villages, hunger, lonely children and helpless old folk More... Losing the sand beneath their feetThe black sand of Kollam district in coastal Kerala is classified as ‘strategic’ because it contains minerals for atomic energy and defence applications. Therefore, indiscriminate mining of the sand can continue, regardless of damage to the ecosystem and the livelihoods of people More... Trafficking women for domestic workMany ‘employment agencies’ that are springing up in cities to place migrant women for domestic work are little more than traffickers. The condition in which these women work violates several laws including the Bonded Labour Act and in many cases the Child Labour and Juvenile Justice Act. Activists are calling for a specific law to regulate the domestic work sector More... The original migrantsThe first migrations from Bihar date back to 1834. Every second family in the state today is sustained by migrants. But even as Patna feted the visit of the Mauritius PM, a Bihari by origin, thousands of Biharis were returning from Maharashtra following attacks upon them. Anosh Malekar travelled with them More... |
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