In Jharkhand, villagers are being dispossessed through subversion of land laws

The creation of ‘land banks’ has allowed the government to acquire large tracts of land, which are being transferred to private companies.

Sushmita

· Jul 26, 2022 · 09:30 pm

In Bihar, the changing course of Kosi river has given rise to land disputes

The state says that any farmland that gets submerged is its property. Farmers living along the river are up in arms.

Umesh Kumar Ray

· Jun 01, 2022 · 01:30 pm

The BJP in Assam says it champions ‘indigenous’ rights. So what explains the Mikir Bamuni land deal?

Land cultivated by Karbi and Adivasi farmers was taken over for a solar power plant. They have kept up a simmering protest ever since.

Rokibuz Zaman

· Feb 06, 2022 · 06:30 am

A Dalit women’s collective is fighting for the land it toils on in Gujarat

The Gujarat government is set to distribute 50,000 acres of wasteland to wealthy farmers, but claims there isn't enough for the landless.

Aarefa Johari

· Dec 06, 2021 · 06:30 am

A protest in Bihar shows how unsurveyed land leaves residents vulnerable

People living and working on such lands have no land titles and hence no protection from displacement.

Nihar Gokhale, IndiaSpend.com

· Aug 29, 2021 · 01:30 pm

Fact-finding report demands action against officials who fired on protesting Adivasis in Kaimur

A press release by three NGOs alleged that the police fired on peacefully protesting Adivasis in Kaimur district of Bihar on September 11, injuring seven.

Scroll Staff

· Oct 23, 2020 · 06:07 pm

Adani’s solar energy project in Jaisalmer temporarily stayed by Rajasthan High Court

Local farmers have challenged the allocation of nearly 990 hectares of agricultural land to billionaire Gautam Adani’s business.

Scroll Staff

· Sep 09, 2020 · 10:35 am

Homeless in Delhi: This election, former nomads are asking for a tiny piece of land

The Gadia Lohars have faced repeated evictions in India’s national capital.

Nihar Gokhale

· Feb 07, 2020 · 09:00 am

‘Our livelihood depends on this land’: A solar park in Gujarat is hurting a pastoral community

The Charanka solar park may help India reach its renewable energy goals, but it has a hidden cost.

Karthikeyan Hemalatha, IndiaSpend.com

· Aug 06, 2019 · 01:30 pm

India had third-highest number of deaths of people defending their land in 2018: Report

Twenty-three such deaths took place in India last year – 13 of them in Thoothukudi during the anti-Sterlite protests.

Scroll Staff

· Jul 31, 2019 · 01:46 pm

‘We don’t want to die landless’: Kerala’s Adivasis are again agitating for land promised in 2001

Nearly 200 landless Adivasis have been protesting for over a week after they were forcibly evicted from the Thovarimala forest in Wayanad.

TA Ameerudheen

· May 06, 2019 · 09:00 am

Despite nature’s protests, encroachment and illegal construction are rampant in Kerala’s Munnar

The hilly region was severely affected by the August 2018 and 1924 floods and illegal constructions could become an election issue this year.

KA Shaji

· Mar 04, 2019 · 01:30 pm