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Sanitation

A decade later, drinking water access, sanitation still lacking in city: Census

Houselisting and Housing Only 78.4 per cent houses have provision for drinking water on premises, 3.3 per cent still defecate in the open.

Publication Date: 
08/05/2012
Indian Express (New Delhi)
Tags:
Census 2011, Sanitation, Drinking Water, Delhi, Habitat And Urbanisation, Toilets, Population, People, Housing, Telecommunication
People

Survey report on backwardness of 82 tribes submitted to govt

JAIPUR: A survey report with quantifiable data on the backwardness of 82 tribes in the state was presented to the state government by the Institute of Development Studies, Jaipur. The report is a comparative study on the social, economic and educational status of more than 91,000 families.

The report has been prepared on the directions of the Rajasthan High Court while hearing a PIL after the state government had granted a special 5% reservation to the Gujjars in the state.

Publication Date: 
08/05/2012
Times Of India (Jaipur)
Tags:
Tribes, High Court, Public Interest Litigation (PIL), Education, Economy, People, Rajasthan
People

Population growth rate dips to 17%

Population has started to swell in Delhi’s suburbs. Gurgaon and Noida (Gautam Buddha Nagar) are among the top five places in India that recorded the highest decadal growth rate in population.

Publication Date: 
05/05/2012
Times Of India (New Delhi)
Tags:
India, Population Trends, Delhi, Gurgaon (D), Noida, Arunachal, Meghalaya, Andhra Pradesh, Orissa (Odisha), Maharashtra, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Rajasthan, Maternal Health, Family Planning
People

Maoist intimidation

We condemn the attack by the Maoists on 21 April near Kerlapal village in Sukma district (in Chhattisgarh) in which they killed two security guards and abducted the Sukma district collector, Alex Paul Menon. At the time of this attack, Menon, accompanied by security guards, was in the process of conducting Gram Swaraj Abhiyaan across the district. (Letters)

Publication Date: 
05/05/2012
Ramachandra Guha, E A S Sarma, Nandini Sundar
Economic and Political Weekly
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Tags:
Naxalites, Conflicts, India, Tribals, Chhattisgarh, Human Rights
People

Turmoil in south Bastar

I received a press handout issued by southern Bastar division of the Communist Party of India (Maoist) on 24 April in the evening. The news about district collector Alex Paul Menon being “kidnapped” had already become an issue of deep concern. The Maoist press release concludes with a set of issues that must be attended to immediately. (Letters)

Publication Date: 
05/05/2012
B D Sharma
Economic and Political Weekly
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4-5
Tags:
Naxalites, Bastar, Tribals, Chhattisgarh, Conflicts, Human Rights, India
Energy

No direct benefit to state from Rs 21,500-cr Bathinda refinery

Cong questions 15-year tax holiday to refinery; villagers who gave land still waiting for job.

Publication Date: 
02/05/2012
Indian Express (Chandigarh)
Tags:
Bathinda (D), Petrochemical Industry, Punjab, Land, People, Land Acquisition, Unemployment
Forests

Woes of forests and forest dwellers

GUWAHATI: The Scheduled Tribes and other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006 is not being properly implemented in Assam along with other parts of the country. This was revealed by the Asian Indigenous and Tribal People’s Network (AITPN) in its report titled ‘‘The State of the Forest Rights Act: Undoing of Historical Injustice Withered’’ which was released on Monday.

It is also seen that the implementation of the Scheduled Tribes and other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006 is very slow in Assam and the rate of rejection of claims made by the forest dwellers is also increasing in case of the State.

Publication Date: 
01/05/2012
Sentinel (Guwahati)
Tags:
Forest Rights Act 2006, Tribals, Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand), Tripura, Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF), Ministry of Tribal Affairs, People, Forests, Assam
Mining

No need for mine tax like Australia: Dinsha Patel

Mines minister Dinsha Patel on Wednesday refused to entertain the Odisha government’s demand for imposing a mineral resource tax on the lines of Australia and also questioned the state’s Chief Mini

Publication Date: 
26/04/2012
Indian Express (New Delhi)
Tags:
Australia, Mining, Minerals, Orissa (Odisha), Ministry of Mines, People
Poverty

Technical group to take a relook at poverty estimates

The government will soon set up a technical group to revisit the norms for estimating poverty.

Publication Date: 
26/04/2012
Indian Express (New Delhi)
Tags:
Poverty, People, India, Planning Commission
Forests

JNU honours ‘forest man’ on Earth Day

New Delhi: Sunday Times had on April 1 reported about Assam man Jadav Payeng’s unparalleled feat of single-handedly growing a forest spread over 550 hectares on a sandbar in the Brahmaputra over 30

Publication Date: 
24/04/2012
Times Of India (New Delhi)
Tags:
Delhi, Forests, Forest Conservation, Rajendra Singh, Assam, Vulture, People

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