Relocating to resuscitate

A land in turmoil

An assessment of environmental degradation must preclude rebuilding of Afghanistan

Centre's new draft rehabilitation policy half-baked

Crime bureau cleared

Just deportation?

SC issues notice to Tripura government for re-starting relocation of tribals against orders

Tehri dam oustees to be rehabilitated again; threat of landslides

Slow relief

Forced resettlement violates people's rights

The UN Commission on Human Rights adopts a resolution that will have direct bearing on the controversial Narmada clam in Gujarat.

Putting in place

Resettlement and rehabilitation of persons displaced by land acquisitions must form a part of the Land Acquisition Act, says NHRC

Maheshwar dam: NGT directs state to sort out rehabilitation problems

In the last two years since completion of dam, many houses have either been immersed or washed away, and people have been left without either a …

Unceremoniously dumped

Assam's evicted encroachers show legal proof of residence

Land is not less

Thanks to state apathy, tribals of Kerala are landless

Tehri on, regardless

Is the recent incident at the dam site an indication of things to come?

Forest fraud

Senior official in the dock

Pay hike

Labourers in Tripura plantations get a better deal

Tribals protest all over India

Home sunk home

No to industrialization drive

Tsunami effect: compensation to victims stalled

Under international censure

The Singrauli Super Thermal Power Station has managed to secure a World Bank loan of $400 million, but the allegations of environmental …

Officials gloat over eviction of tribals

By evacuating tribal encroachers from around the Dudhwa park, forest officials have won another round in the struggle for access to forests. But …

Fishing in troubled waters

People displaced by a dam on the Tawa, the Narmada's biggest tributary, charted their own rehabilitation through exemplary management of natural …

Learning from the Gujarat quake

It is more than two years since the terrible earthquake struck Gujarat. In this period the catastrophe-struck areas have witnessed rehabilitation …

High and dry

Madhya Pradesh's amended rehabilitation policy may render dam-affected tribals of 14 villages landless

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 …