The Supreme Court on April 18 ordered the villagers be provided with basic forest rights in form of the land titles
A recent show on a local Doordarshan channel about Dongria Kondhs, indigenous people who inhabit the plateaus of the Niyamgiri hill ranges in Odisha, ended with a scene where a young member of a tribe throws away some rupee coins given by a government official, asks for a matchbox instead and quickly vanishes into the jungle.
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[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/news/niyamgiri-poised-voting-bauxite-mining-vedanta-plant
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/sadananda-mohapatra
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/newspaper/business-standard-new-delhi
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/orissa
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/kalahandi
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/bauxite
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/mining
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/vedanta-aluminium
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/rayagada-d
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/tribals
[11] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/compensation
[12] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/ngo
