The Orissa government has constituted Lanjigarh Project Area Development Foundation, a special purpose vehicle, for the progress and development of primitive tribal communities like Kutia Kondh and Dongria Kondh
I cannot get detached from my own people for petty politics, he says
BERHAMPUR: While the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) is promoting the Vedanta Alumina Limited (VAL), a former BJD MLA of Rayagada district Sarangadhar Kadraka has decided to be in the forefront of the agitation against the mining of VAL in the Niyamgiri hills in south Orissa.
This essay contends that the economic liberalization, privatization and globalization (LPG) model of development in India is virtually depriving the tribal people and other agriculture dependent poor people of their traditional means of sustainable livelihood by promoting the unregulated growth of mineral-based industries in the tribal regions of India.
