-Scroll.in It is important that forest policies are formulated through a gender-sensitive lens and that women are included in the conversation. A few weeks ago, when Google India marked the 45th anniversary of the Chipko movement with a doodle, it was a refreshing flashback to forest communities sacrificing their lives to protect trees from being felled for timber use. One of the first such recorded community protests was at Khejarli village in...
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The Pathalgadi rebellion -Amarnath Tewary
-The Hindu In recent months, many Adivasi villages in Jharkhand have put up giant plaques declaring their gram sabha as the only sovereign authority and banning ‘outsiders’ from their area. Amarnath Tewary reports on a political movement that is gathering steam across the State’s tribal belt It is high noon at the government middle school in the heart of Maoist-affected Arki block in Jharkhand’s Khunti district. Over 100 Adivasi villagers have gathered...
More »Massive Demo against "DBT for food subsidy" in Jharkhand
-Press Release from Right to Food Campaign dated 26 February, 2018 Ranchi: Thousands of people – men and women, young and old – walked all the way from Nagri Block towards the Chief Minister’s House in Ranchi today to demand an immediate end to the “DBT for food subsidy” experiment in Nagri. They were prevented from reaching the CM’s house, but they did reach the Governor’s house where they held a...
More »Survey: Serious flaws in new food subsidy scheme in Jharkhand
-The Times of India RANCHI: Jharkhand government's Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) scheme, introduced last year for ration distribution, has serious flaws, an audit by Right To Food (RTF) Campaign has revealed. After the pilot DBT scheme was introduced in October 2017 at Nagri block in Ranchi district, residents could no longer purchase rice at Re 1 per kg from ration shops and instead had to wait for transfers to their bank accounts....
More »Jharkhand govt's bank transfer pilot for food subsidies turns a nightmare -Ashlin Mathew
-National Herald More than 25% of the villagers in Nagri, near Ranchi, where the pilot was introduced, have not received subsidies. Most have made multiple trips to the banks wasting their money and yet no solution Aychi Nagduwar is 85 years old and she lives with her 40-year-old mentally-challenged son in Singhpur near Ranchi. The food subsidy supposed to be credited by the Jharkhand government under the Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) scheme...
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