India

 Update

The Group of Ministers on the draft resettlement and rehabilitation policy had its third meeting on July 19, where it considered increasing the state governments' role in land acquisition for

Publication Date: 
30/08/2007
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Land Resources, Land Ownership, Displacement, Conflicts, Rehabilitation, Industry, Private Sector, India
Fisheries

 Swamphen vanishing from Bakhira lake

It was a bright sunny morning when I reached the Bakhira lake. Bakhira is reputed to be the biggest natural wetland in Uttar Pradesh and is known for its purple swamphens. The birds are known to be

Publication Date: 
30/08/2007
Kirtiman Awasthi
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Wetlands, Fisheries, Endangered Species, Displacement, Conflicts, Compensation, Birds, Protected Area Conservation, Sanctuaries, Poaching, India, Uttar Pradesh, Sant Kabir Nagar
Mining

 Mining firms set up shop in Orissa

Lanjigarh block, Kalahandi, Orissa, May 17 At its summit, the northeastern ridge of the Niyamgiri hill range has a bald patch, typical of hilltops with bauxite deposits. A dense tree cover that provides a welcome shade to climbers struggling some 8 km up

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14/07/2007
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Forests, Land Ownership, Mining, Aluminium Industry, Bauxite, Displacement, Tribals, Conflicts, Wildlife, Supreme Court, India, Kalahandi
Industry

 Efficiency versus democracy

Industrialist Ratan Tata has reportedly written to the prime minister cribbing about delays in implementing big buck projects. In his capacity as the chair of the government s investment commission

Publication Date: 
29/06/2007
Sunita Narain
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Land Resources, Land Ownership, Development, Displacement, Tribals, Conflicts, Poverty, Industry, Legislation, Government Of India (GOI), India, Pondicherry
Industry

 Gujarat faces forced land aquisition in name of industrialisation

Gujarat has received encomiums from many quarters for its rapid industrialisation. Industries have mushroomed all over the state, thanks to investment campaigns like

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14/06/2007
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Land Resources, Land Ownership, Development, Displacement, Farmers, Conflicts, Economic Development, Industry, Panchayats, India, Gujarat
Forests

 Saltpan workers in Gujarat served eviction notice from sanctuary

thousands of saltpan workers, called Agarias, from 107 villages in Gujarat's Rajkot, Surendranagar, Patan and Kutch districts face displacement with the Gujarat forest department serving them an

Publication Date: 
30/05/2007
L Mahesh
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Forests, Salt, Displacement, Workers, Rehabilitation, Compensation, Wild Ass, Sanctuaries, India, Gujarat, Kuchchh, Patan, Rajkot, Surendranagar (D)
India

 'Maps of resource rich, poverty stricken tribal India overlap'

Ethnic conflicts have dogged India since independence. The problem has attracted a lot of scholarship. Amarjyoti Borah talks to two eminent academics who have looked at the problem. Ram Dayal Munda,

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30/05/2007
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Land Ownership, North East, Koel Karo, Displacement, Tribals, Conflicts, Poverty, NGO, India, Jharkhand, Naxalites, Rural Poverty
Wildlife

 Relocation of wildlife in Indira Sagar Reservoir area affects tribals

forest officials of Narmada Valley Development Authority (nvda) launched an operation in March 2007 to shift monkeys and nilgai from an island in the Indira Sagar Reservoir area near Chhanera in

Publication Date: 
14/05/2007
Nandita Chibber
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Dams, Indira Sagar, Narmada Valley Project, Displacement, Tribals, Rehabilitation, Wildlife, National Parks, India, Madhya Pradesh
Industry

 Freeze on special economic zones lifted

the empowered group of ministers (EGoM) lifted the freeze on special economic zones (sezs) on April 5, 2007, with some policy dilutions. It fixed the upper limit for sezs at 5,000 hectares.

Publication Date: 
29/04/2007
Kirtiman Awasthi
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Land Resources, Land Ownership, Development, Displacement, Rehabilitation, Industry, Government Of India (GOI), India
Mining

 Essar gets Bailadila prospecting lease

Moving towards privatisation of mining in India, the Union government granted Essar Steel Limited a prospecting licence in February 2007 to mine iron ore reserves in Chhattisgarh's Dantewada

Publication Date: 
14/04/2007
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Land Resources, Land Ownership, Mining, Iron, Displacement, Tribals, Conflicts, Private Sector, India

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