India discrimination report 2022
The India Discrimination Report 2022 focuses on differential access to labour market (absorption and wages),factor market (access to credit) and endowment market (access to hospitalisation) for different
Tribals
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SC stays its order on eviction of tribals and forest dwellers
However, the court said “the mighty and the undeserving” would be shown no mercy. Asks States to file affidavits to show verification was fair The Supreme Court on Thursday stayed its February 13
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Farmers’ body plans campaign over eviction of forest dwellers
Critical of Central government’s attitude; vows to resist eviction The All India Kisan Mazdoor Sabha (AIKMS) is planning a nationwide campaign to expose the Narendra Modi-led Central government’s “anti-forest
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CM sets up sub-panel to examine SC order on forest rights act
Bhopal: A day after Congress MP Jyotiraditya Scindia’s letter, chief minister Kamal Nath on Sunday constituted a ministerial sub-committee to examine the situation arising out of Supreme Court order on
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Tribals of West Bengal battling food scarcity: study
Communities are ‘far behind’ in terms of human development, says survey of 1,000 households by Professor Amartya Sen’s institute Two months after the West Bengal government denied any food scarcity
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Rajasthan Assembly Elections 2018: Polls come and go, but Sahariyas’ plight still poor
Rajasthan’s tribal community in Shahbad region facing poverty, unemployment and malnutrition The Sahariya tribal community of Shahbad region in Baran district, which recorded 47 starvation deaths during
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Parched until year ago, village digs deep into resolve to see water table rise
Last year in November, Ganeshwadi, a hamlet of Kolam tribals in Maharastra’s Yavatmal, was the first in the district to get water supply through tankers. This year, the village doesn’t need tankers — it
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Statue of Unity: How environment, Adivasi rights lost again to Patel's name
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel is often thought of as the inspiration for the Sardar Sarovar dam which faced a lot of environmental and humanitarian protests India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi will today
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Tribal health in India: report of the expert committee on tribal health- executive summary and recommendations
104 million tribal people, accounting for 8.6 percent of India’s population, are heavily marginalised and discriminated against. Not only are tribal communities socio-economically othered by the mainstream
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Tribal health in India: report of the expert committee on tribal health (Dr Abhay Bang Committee)
An Expert Committee on Tribal Health was constituted jointly by the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare (MoHFW) and the Ministry of Tribal Affairs (MoTA), Government of India in the year 2013 under the
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Indonesia touts agrarian reform, but activists say success hinges on indigenous rights
Indonesian officials touted a new agrarian reform law as a major step forward in an ambitious land distribution programme, but activists warned on Wednesday that the plan will fail without legally recognising