Simply Put: Happily never after

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PDS, public infrastructure helping Adivasis of Chhattisgarh, MP live with dignity despite lower income: PRADAN Report

Malnutrition, gender discrimination, lack of landholdings and education & declining forest produce major concerns  

Simply Put: State of tribals

Simply Put: Tigers & tribals

Fear of another COVID-19 lockdown spurs distress sale of mahua flowers

Odisha tribals remember financial hit during 2020 pandemic containment measures

Tribals observe 14th anniversary of Odisha’s Kalinganagar firing incident

Closure on the tragedy has still not come about, say tribal leaders

A new project aims to document India’s customary laws

Documenting customary laws is a step towards community-led conservation

As told to Parliament (December 1, 2021): Lightning strikes killed 2,862 Indians in 2020

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India’s tribal village infrastructure in a shambles

75% without access to healthcare, 51% without PDS, 52% without piped water

Restrictions can be relaxed within a kilometre of eco-sensitive zones, Supreme Court indicates

The court will give its verdict on this matter on March 24  

Individual forest rights: How residents of this Sundargarh tribal village fight to protect their natural resources

Despite living on their land for years, some of the villagers were denied land titles 

Environmental crusader Sugathakumari of Silent Valley fame dies

She died following complications from COVID-19

What do tribal groups like the Soligas and Yeravas eat?

Loss of habitat and knowledge could adversely impact diets of tribal communities living in Western Ghats  

Sudden release of water destroyed Gujarat banana crop, allege farmers

Prices of the common man’s fruit expected to rise as standing crop falls 

COVID-19 lockdown: Odisha’s mahua flower collectors left in lurch

The state’s tribal economy intrinsically runs on mahua flower trade in summers

Hesitancy, rumours afflict COVID-19 vaccination drive in Odisha’s tribal villages

Healthcare workers have to trek miles and cross springs to reach the villages 

Odisha on FRA claims: No time to collect evidence, no hearing, just rejection

The state has rejected 10,000 claims

Displaced by settlers: Tribal communities in Kerala’s Attappady block are being alienated from their land

Laws in place to protect their rights, but no means to enforce it

As told to Parliament (September 22, 2020): 45% of Beti Bachao-Beti Padhao funds not utilised in 2019-20

All that was discussed in the Houses through the day  

Global Eco Watch: Key Indonesia law incapable of protecting 80% of rainforest vulnerable to palm oil plantation

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Man sacrificed in Odisha to ‘prevent COVID-19’

Crime committed by priest in a temple in Cuttack district

COVID-19: Gujarat forest dept officials allegedly torched huts, fields

The state’s forest officials told villagers to evict land or face consequences

Rights ensured under FRA are not just ‘enjoyment rights’

The misreading of the forest title deed, has become a stumbling block to the entitlements of title holders