-Scroll.in How does the project qualify as ‘public purpose’ and does it violate legal safeguards for Santhal areas? Part 2 of a Scroll.in investigation on the Godda plant. In the villages of Motiya and Gangta in Jharkhand’s Godda district, tractors and SUVs race down a recently widened dirt road. Even in the clouds of dust they kick off, it is hard to miss the fence stretching across kilometres of farmland, with cows...
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In Bihar's Banka, Women Build a Road the Government Couldn't
-TheWire.in Landowners who had earlier refused to give up their property for the road said they changed their minds on seeing the women's enthusiasm. New Delhi: Women from a remote village in Bihar’s Banka district have pooled together to fix what has been a major concern – the lack of a road in the area. According to a report in the Telegraph, more than 130 women from Nima village decided that they could...
More »Politicians gather in Palghar to oppose bullet train project -Kavitha Iyer
-The Indian Express The bullet train project, planned after discussions between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe, is being built with a Rs 88,000-crore soft loan from Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). Palghar: As politicians across party lines gathered on stage together in Palghar on Sunday calling for the ambitious Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train project to be cancelled, they repeatedly cited the word ‘vikas’, qualifying it with the...
More »Civil Society Demands Withdrawal of AP "Anti-People" Land Acquisition Amendment Bill
-Hindkisan.com “This amendment is an insult to people who fought hard to secure progressive provisions in the LARR 2013, it weaken people’s power to challenge illegal and unjust forced acquisition of land, and empowers the state and corporations to infringe upon people’s rights over natural resources” read the statement. Various civil society organisations have come together to oppose the recent President’s assent granted to the amendments made in the Andhra Pradesh Land...
More »As Land Acquisition Continues Unabated, Gujarat Farmers Seek Permission to Die -Damayantee Dhar
-TheWire.in Fearing that their land will be taken away by the government, over 5,000 farmers from Bhavnagar have sought permission for mass euthanasia along with their families. Bhavnagar (Gujarat): On April 1, about 100 heavily armed police personnel marched into a nondescript village, Badi in Ghogha taluka of Gujarat’s Bhavnagar district, and fired tear gas shells and lathi-charged locals, injuring about ten persons, including women, and detained more than 50. All...
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