Faulty rehabilitation policy
On february 26, yet another full-page advertisement appeared in national dailies as a part of the ruling coalition's feel-good blitz in the build-…
An ad a day will keep voters away
How bizarre can a government policy decision get? India's first national policy on resettlement and rehabilitation for people affected by …
Patkar unperturbed by exodus of villagers
Medha Patkar, doyenne of the Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA), which opposes the Sardar Sarovar Project (SSP) on the Narmada river, has won a major …
Keeper of the nation's water kitty
MADHAV Chitale, former secretary in the ministry of water resources, is a recipient of The Stockholm Water Award, given by the Stockholm Water …
Where are the panchayats?
Of the three farm water conservation programmes currently under way in Karnataka, the Jal Samvardhene Yojana (jsy) has completed a year of …
In search of the missing
In the undivided Koraput district of Orissa, there exist 190 villages that have slowly been pushed off the map of India. Hurled by fast-track …
Former militant Bijoy Hrankhal on Tripura's tribal needs
Bijoy Kumar Hrankhal was the founder member and vice-president of the Tripura National Volunteer, the first militant group in Tripura. He laid …
The chemistry of living death
THE world's biggest industrial disaster has been rendered today its most trivial. Criminal corporate culpability and governmental concern for its …
Theirs to mine?
This is the question angry and beleaguered tribals in Orissa and Jharkhand are asking, as mining companies set up shop in the midst of their land …
A dark tunnel
Twenty-nine workers were killed in a landslide at the Tehri dam. The contractor building the dam has blamed the "weak mountains" for …
Back To Beginning
Afghanistan, the badland of international politics, faces its toughest challenge: life and peace. Two decades of war, six months of non-stop …
1,620.361 ha of discontent
Special economic zones and sit-ins. Mega-projects and marches. Public-private partnerships and pitched battles. Precociously, because they are …
Still life in waves
The visual media is into the business of producing images. Sometimes, just sometimes, they become iconic. For disasters there is a recognisable …
Linking up to stay afloat
People affected by an irrigation project in Rajasthan are not only speaking out collectively against the insensitivity, they are teaming up with …
Houses of cards
A recent workshop reveals that the rehabilitation of the 1993 Marathwada earthquake victims was a bloody farce
Developing distress
The birth-pangs of development have been faced so far by the downtrodden, but things need to change soon
"We cannot just sit and wait for development support"
Martha Wangari Karua is a cabinet minister for water resource management and development in Kenya. A lawyer by profession, she is among that rare …
Needs more teeth, say critics
The widely-criticised draft policy on rehabilitation and resettlement has a major loophole -- it does not provide for any legislative backing
Damned despair
Oustees of the Sardar Sarovar Project still languish in large numbers for a roof over their head
Forest rights
Adivasis draft an alternative forest bill and a rehabilitation policy to safeguard India's forests
Choose or else
The ecodevelopment project being implemented in Gir National Park has raked up a controversy on the issue of relocation of the native Maldhari …
Nowhere to go
The new land Bill will make it easier to displace the poor in the name of development, say experts
"The state cannot deprive people"
WALTER FERNANDES, who has worked extensively for tribes and on tribal issues, talks to SURYA SEN
Pastoralists at the crossroads
Hemmed in by intensive agricultural and industrial activity, pastoralists are finding less room to carry on their activities. This could upset …
