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

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

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