-The Hindu Dehra Dun: The Uttarakhand Government would request the Centre to review the notification on eco-sensitive zone between Gomukh and Uttarkashi as its implementation would adversely affect all development activity and economic progress of the region. Briefing newspersons after a high-level meeting at the Secretariat here on Thursday, Chief Secretary Alok Kumar Jain said it had been decided to seek a review by the Centre after discussing the legal aspects, adverse...
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Saradha Group donated heavily to Trinamool govt, bought Mamata's art -Madhuparna Das and Subrata Nagchoudhury
-The Indian Express Kolkata: When the Saradha Group's Bengali daily Sakalbela began publication, Mamata Banerjee sent her best wishes. It was more than a customary greeting. It was an impassioned message that seemed to have come from the chief minister's heart. "We will have to pass the dark night to begin our journey in the light of dawn," she said. "An alert conscience, right direction, truth and fearless news is what people...
More »State gets the stick for tribal landlessness-G Prabhakaran
-The Hindu CAG sees weak political will, highlights failure of scheme Palakkad: A Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) report has charged the State with a lack of political will in providing land to landless tribal people in the State. The Audit Report (General and Social Sector) of the CAG for the financial year 2011-12 accuses the government of tardy implementation of a Rs. 175-crore scheme for the resettlement of landless tribal people launched...
More »Adivasis’ dangerous journey into the urban jungle-Anumeha Yadav
-The Hindu Latehar: Last week, two 14-year-old adivasi girls, who had migrated from Khunti district to work in Delhi as domestic help, were found dead in mysterious circumstances, both within two days of each other. On April 19, Jyoti Mariyam Hora died soon after she was brought to the Madan Mohan Malviya Hospital in Delhi's Malviya Nagar. Two days later, Dayamani Guriya, who had studied with Jyoti till class VI and had...
More »Land lease is an idea whose time has come-NC Saxena
-The Business Standard It will make the coercive powers of the land acquisition law irrelevant, though including it in the central Bill would be unconstitutional The proposal to amend the central Land Acquisition Bill to provide for leasing of land rather than acquiring it is just not constitutionally feasible. Land is a state subject and the Centre cannot legislate on leasing at all. But as an idea it is great and should...
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