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Land Struggles
‘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
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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
In Jammu and Kashmir, Gujjars and Bakerwals grow anxious after the repeal of Roshni Act
The poor tribal communities anyway have few land rights. Now, they fear eviction from lands they have lived and grazed their livestock on for generations.
Safwat Zargar
· Dec 13, 2018 · 09:00 am
Despite court order, Tamil Nadu government is flouting land acquisition law for highway project
It has started work on a resettlement and rehabilitation plan without a social impact assessment in consultation with local people.
S Senthalir
· Oct 04, 2018 · 09:00 am
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For Tamil Nadu highway project, government is using police to acquire farmland
The frequent arrests and detentions of farmers opposing the project has created fear in five districts.
S Senthalir
· Oct 02, 2018 · 09:00 am
In battles over land rights, activists are being branded as criminals, says UN report
Last year, more than 200 activists were killed, the highest since 2002.
Karla Mendes, Thomson Reuters Foundation News
· Aug 29, 2018 · 01:30 pm
Marginalised for years, Taiwan’s indigenous people are demanding their rights to ancestral land
Taiwan’s indigenous people make up about 2% of its 23.5 million people and are poorer, less educated and more jobless than their Chinese counterparts.
Rina Chandran, Thomson Reuters Foundation
· Jun 14, 2018 · 09:30 pm
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Rooms with a view: In Bihar-set film ‘Gamak Ghar’, documentary and fiction are inseparable
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‘We will save our village’: In Kerala, a road project pits the CPI(M) against its supporters
The fight is between protection of the environment and livelihoods and development.
TA Ameerudheen
· Mar 18, 2018 · 07:30 am
In Gujarat, it took a tragedy for two Dalits to get their land titles. Many more are still waiting
Dalit anger is rising over the long wait for government land allotments, which resulted in an activist setting himself ablaze last week.
Aarefa Johari
· Feb 26, 2018 · 09:00 am
In Bihar, a land programme for Dalits improved many lives – until Nitish Kumar allied with the BJP
His government has eased off on Dakhal Dehani, which seeks to help Dalits reclaim their occupied land, allegedly to please his ally’s upper caste support base.
Raksha Kumar
· Feb 22, 2018 · 09:00 am
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