-Tehelka Survival International is an NGO that works for the welfare of indigenous tribal populations all over the world. Recently, it launched the Proud, Not Primitive campaign in India. Survival’s press officer Alice Bayer was in India to spread the word. Speaking to G Vishnu, she spells out what is wrong with the development versus tribal rights debate. Edited Excerpts from an Interview * Tell us about the Proud, Not Primitive campaign? Government...
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Jairam Ramesh brushes aside National Green Tribunal flak on clearance to 3 mines in Chhattisgarh
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: A day after receiving flak from the National Green Tribunal (NGT), Union rural development minister Jairam Ramesh defended his decision, as then environment minister, to clear three cases of coal mining in Chhattisgarh. Ramesh said he acted on his "own assessment" which was well within his right as a minister. In a statement, Ramesh said, "While forest advisory committee (FAC) was carrying out its due diligence,...
More »The White Tiger Girls-Neha Dixit
-Newclick.in Malnutrition is a big contributor to the low child sex ratio in Rewa district of Madhya Pradesh. The girls of the Kol tribe are suffering. The first white tiger, Mohan, ever found in natural history was in the jungles of Govindgarh in Rewa district in Madhya Pradesh in 1951. It was caught by the then king and imprisoned in his palace till its death. Located in the northeast part of the...
More »The rise and fall of Mahendra Karma – the Bastar Tiger -Suvojit Bagchi
-The Hindu Raipur: Launching the Congress party's ‘Parivartan Yatra' (March for Change) on Thursday in Bastar, a senior Central Minister, Jairam Ramesh, compared Mahendra Karma, the tribal leader, with a "slow tiger." "Mahendra Karma was called the ‘Bastar Tiger.' But the tiger has slowed down over the years," said the Minister in the presence of Mr. Karma and about two thousand Gond tribals. Sitting on the dais, Mr. Karma's reactions changed...
More »New markers to label forest areas ‘inviolate’
-The Indian Express A committee set up by the Ministry of Environment and Forests has suggested new parameters to declare pristine forested areas as ‘inviolate’ and thus out of bounds for mining or other harmful non-forest activities. The panel, headed by former environment secretary T Chatterjee, has recommended that national parks and wildlife sanctuaries; areas within a kilometre of protected areas; compact patches of very dense forests; last remnants of forest types...
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