-IPS News attappadi, India, May 4 2014 (IPS) - The death of a 10-day-old girl last November in the attappadi tribal belt of Kerala, one of India's best performing states in terms of human development indices, shows how the country's battle against child mortality is far from won. The infant's mother, Saraswathy, a 20-year-old from the Kurumba tribe, was admitted to a government hospital, and delivered the next day. At 1.8 kg,...
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Organised Marginalisation-Neha Dixit
-Newsclick.in How malnutrition and death have gripped the tribals of attappadi in Kerala after land alienation in 1996. Neha Dixit reports. Last month, E. K. Bhushan, Kerala Chief Secretary informed the tribal people of attappadi Hills that they are now entitled to restore 530 hectares of land in the area. This is out of the roughly 4370 hectares of land that was alienated from the tribals after the Tribal Land Amendment Act...
More »Malnutrition related death toll in Attapadi touches 54 -Laxmi Ajai Prasanna
-The Times of India THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: As the death toll touches 54 in Attapadi, a tribal hamlet in Palakkad, with one more infant succumbing to malnutrition on Saturday, advisor to the Prime Minister, TKA Nair, along with Kudumbasree officials who are on a two-day visit to attappadi are set to issue a set of recommendations to revive the area. "There is no dearth of funds, yet the condition of the women and children...
More »NHRC issues notice to Kerala govt over malnutrition deaths
-PTI New Delhi: National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Tuesday issued notice to the Kerala government over alleged deaths of several infants due to malnutrition in attappadi area of the state. The rights panel has given six weeks time to the state government to submit a report in this regard. According to an NHRC statement, the commission has issued a notice to Chief Secretary, Kerala after taking suo motu cognisance of an...
More »Congress U-turn in Kerala: Suzlon windmills to stay by Shaju Philip
In a major climbdown from its stand during the opposition days, the Congress in Kerala on Wednesday decided not to evict energy major Suzlon from tribal land at ecologically-sensitive attappadi hills, where the firm had illegally erected windmills. During the previous LDF regime, the Congress had vigorously campaigned to evict the windmill owners from tribal land and the party had even sought the intervention of the national leadership. Instead of pulling down...
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