Women-led and women’s rights organizations are on the frontlines of today’s humanitarian crises—but many are at risk of disappearing. As global needs rise due to conflict, climate change, and displacement, deep cuts to foreign aid are threatening organizations that provide life-saving services for women and girls. In March 2025, UN …
Thirty-five years ago, the state government had promised to allocate 1 acre of land to each of the 860 farmers who were displaced because of land acquisition for the Pawna dam in Pune district. All that was required for the government was to identity 860 acres of land in the …
The Supreme Court has delivered an important judgement for people displaced by dams in the Narmada Valley. It has cleared way for displaced families to receive minimum two hectares (ha) of land under the Resettlement and Rehabilitation (R&R) Policy of Madhya Pradesh government. The oustees had already got a cash …
Farmers agitating against land acquisition for Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) have threatened to commit mass self immolation on Independence Day in a press conference here on Monday. President of the Displaced Farmers' Association, Tilak Ram Saini made this announcement and said that their on-going fight against the Government will …
Sustainable mining is an oxymoron. Environmentalists will tell you this. Mining – from coal to limestone – destroys forests, devastates mountains and leaves the land pock-marked. It also destroys people’s livelihoods and displaces them. Worse, modern, mechanised mining hurts livelihoods based on land but does not replace them with local …
The uncertainty associated with coal supply and it’s price have been reported regularly in recent weeks. The impact on our society of the large number of coal power plants being planned, built and operated in the country should be viewed in this context. It is high time that the social, …
The Morse committee has asked the World Bank to step back from the Sardar Sarovar project. Whether the bank complies or not, the committee has undoubtedly delivered a resounding indictment of all those involved in the project—from the governments of Gujarat and India to the mighty World Bank. There is …
The Khandadhar waterfalls is a favourite picnic destination of many college students in Odisha. But it may soon be a pleasure of the past. The falls spring out from the Khandadhar hills that are home to 69 working sponge iron units. And with more than 150 mining projects approved, the …
Hidden behind city branding exercises through large projects are acts of land capture and slum demolitions by a predatory local state and crony capitalism. In the policy arena, meanwhile, the urban, and particularly the metropolitan story has been one of deliberate confusion, and fragmentation of policy and implementation. The promise …
A brainstorming meeting on forthcoming Bills on land, food, seeds and pesticides was stunned into silence when two participating farmers hit out at the government for the manner in which they were being displaced from their fertile land to satisfy the needs of corporates. “The archaic Land Acquisition Bill is …
Flood waters have not only made commuting difficult but have also entered people's homes in areas like Uripok, Lamphelpat, Lamsang, Nambol and Langol Grace Colony. ast tracts of agricultural land have also been submerged in the floods. Thousands of acres of paddy fields and fish farms have been destroyed. Imphal, …
While giving state governments the flexibility to acquire land either in full or in part for private companies for public purpose, the draft National Land Acquisition and Rehabilitation and Resettlement Bill, 2011, plans to make “consent” of 80 per cent of the families for acquisition mandatory. Unveiled by the Rural …
Land use change in Rajasthan resulting in perpetual threat of eviction to local communities: Activists Civil rights activists addressing a convention on land acquisition and displacement here on Wednesday registered a strong protest against “land use change” at several places in Rajasthan resulting in perpetual threat of eviction to the …
The state Cabinet, which met under the chairmanship of Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Wednesday, decided to amend its Rehabilitation and Resettlement Policy-2010. It was decided to fix the floor rate of Rs 25 lakh per acre for area situated within the final development plan of Faridabad-Ballabhgarh Controlled …
LIVING a legally non-existent life for more than six decades, the Taungya forest-dwellers in Gorakhpur and Maharajganj districts of Uttar Pradesh finally got their share of rights on forestland. On July 25, state forest minister Fateh Bahadur Singh distributed land titles to 651 Taungya families in six villages of the …
This draft Bill seeks to balance the need for facilitating land acquisition for various public purposes including infrastructure development, industrialisation and urbanisation, while at the same time meaningfully addressing the concerns of farmers and those whose livelihoods are dependent on the land being acquired.The issue of who acquires land is …
Judgement of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of Narmada Bachao Andolan Vs State of Madhya Pradesh dated 26/07/2011 regarding allotment of land in lieu of land acquired and non-compliance of R&R Policy for the oustees of the Narmada Projects. Supreme Court notes rejects the appeal of the …
JITENDRA JAKHETIA Indore Are farmers of Indore getting raw deal during land acquisition compared to their counterparts in the state capital? Answer is affirmative. Farmers in Indore are getting at least 5 to 10 per cent less than their counterparts in Bhopal. Here in Indore, land owners get 50 per …
Dhubri erosion displaces hundreds - Concrete roads proposed for island; erosion threatens NH31 About a hundred families of Ward 3, located along the bank of the Brahmaputra, have been displaced here since last night. Unabated erosion by the Gangadhar also engulfed huge areas near National Highway 31 near Beer Chilarai …
A special report by Down to Earth on the 252-MW dam proposed by Satluj Jal Vidyut Nigam on the river Pindar in Uttarakhand’s Chamoli district that would reduce the river’s 22-km stretch to a mere trickle and threaten the life & ways of 20,000 inhabitants of the district. Dam proposed …
On the morning of June 13, 2011, Sukhdev Sahoo of Nuagaon in Odisha’s Jagatsinghpur district woke up in horror. The state administration had demolished his betel farm. The betel vines were in the way of India’s largest foreign direct investment: the US $12 billion POSCO project. Sahoo was threatened: “If …
