-The Hindu Palakkad (Kerala): The Scheduled Caste Development Department has recommended the Government to cancel the acquisition of 3.5795 hectares of land of nine tribal families for a private company for granite mining at Dhanyam tribal hamlet in Padavayal village of Attappady. Integrated Tribal Development Project (ITDP) officer of Attappady P.V. Radhakrishnan, on the complaint of usurping tribal land, on Friday said that the acquisition of all their land including houses made...
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Urban India more dissatisfied with UPA-II
-The Hindu Dip in Congress' vote share from SCs, STs, Muslims - its traditional support base Cities are driving the anti-UPA sentiment, while marginalised communities - the Congress' traditional base - are more satisfied than dissatisfied with UPA-II's performance. These findings emerge from a CNN IBN-The Hindu-election tracker poll of 19,062 demographically representative respondents. Just 38 per cent of respondents expressed satisfaction with UPA-II's performance (with 22 per cent undecided), down from 49...
More »A rejection of the ‘maximum-force’ approach-Prashant Jha
-The Hindu A large section of Indian voters appear distinctly uncomfortable with the way the Indian state deals with issues of internal security, particularly the issue of the Maoist insurgency. While they recognise it as the ‘greatest threat', there is a clear disapproval for an approach based on deploying only security forces in large numbers. The CNN IBN-The Hindu Election Tracker survey, conducted by the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies...
More »Half of rural India below poverty line -Sreelatha Menon
-The Business Standard The BPL census is scheduled to be completed in the next three to four months The Census of the population Below the Poverty Line (BPL), meant to determine the number of the poor, has found close to half the rural population to so qualify, as against a 28 per cent ratio estimated by the Planning Commission, say sources in the rural development ministry. The BPL census found 48 per cent...
More »Who is dividing society on caste lines? SC asks -Dhananjay Mahapatra
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Finding tension still simmering in Haryana's Mirchpur village more than three years after dalit houses were torched resulting in a handicapped girl and her father getting burnt to death, the Supreme Court on Monday asked the state, "Who is dividing society on caste lines?" The Haryana government's counsel answered, "The powerful and those in power." The question from a bench of Justices G S Singhvi and V...
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