While the Maharashtra government contends that there is a large number of false claims under the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Rights) Act 2006, Adivasis feel they have been short-changed by the State, which has denied legitimate claims. Thousands of Adivasis are marching to Mumbai from all parts of the Maharashtra to highlight the lacunae in the system.

In Haryana, the state with the lowest malefemale sex ratio in the country, mothers have finally been acknowledged in key announcements made by the Bhupinder Singh Hooda government on the occasion of International Women's Day.

Henceforth, not only will all land allotments under the Mahatma Gandhi Grameen Basti Yojana be made jointly in the names of the "mother" and the "father" of beneficiary fa

The Orissa gov ernment will very soon bring its pet women reservation bill in the state Assembly.
The bill proposes 50 per cent reservation for women in the three-tier panchayati raj institutions.

They are the most crucial but most underpaid and neglected link in the labour chain. Domestic help, construction workers, state volunteers

IN FEBRUARY 2008, the Delhi government had promised 25 mobile schools under the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA), which would run across the length and breadth of the Capital.

The Centre

Bhubaneswar: The Orissa government is struggling to assure the Union environment ministry in writing that diversion of forest land for the Posco steel project will not infringe on the Forest Rights Act.

Union environment minister Jairam Ramesh cleared the project on January 31 and the Naveen Patnaik government in Orissa was to send the crucial assurance by the second week of February.