-The Times of India NEW DELHI: All governments till now, including the present one, have promised that they will do their utmost to uplift dalits and Adivasis who make up about 24% of India's population and generally occupy the lowest rung of the social and economic hierarchy. One way of fulfilling this eternal promise has been the system of specially earmarking funds from the Five Year Plan outlays for dalits and...
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Lost livelihood -Harsh Mander
-The Hindu The Adivasis of Central India, who settled in the tea gardens of Assam decades ago, are still devoid of their basic rights. The even greater tragedy of the coordinated murderous December 23, 2014, attack on unarmed Adivasi forest dwellers in Assam, which left dead more than 70 people including children and women, is that the assault targeted one of the most oppressed and dispossessed communities in that entire region. A meticulously...
More »215 million Indians have zero assets -Prachi Salve
-IndiaSpend.org Of those with zero assets, nearly 80 million people -- the population of Germany -- or 16 million households are Adivasi In a country where "inclusion" is the emerging political mantra, an estimated 215 million Indians - roughly the population of Canada and Pakistan combined - are largely excluded from economic progress. These paupers, of sorts, have "zero assets", which means they do not own a television set, a motorcycle, a mobile...
More »The Questions We Should Be Asking Frequently About the Land Acquisition Act -Usha Ramanathan
-GRISTMedia.com In the course of my work as part of a team set up to look into the socio-economic status of Adivasi communities, there were several things I learned about the Land Acquisition Act, 2013, and the amendments to it. Here are some important questions about land and the Act that we should be asking: * What is the State's relationship to land and its citizens? This a key question - and one...
More »Tribal mothers look forward to rich nutritious meals -Dilnaz Boga
-TheHansIndia.com Poya Devi, 22, is happy that the weight of her child has been steadily increasing. Her infant has received immunisation and, since last June, Poya has been availing services of the Indiramma Amurutha Hastham (IAH) scheme in her village of Urumulu, which lies 30 kilometres away from Araku. Poya was registered at the village's anganwadi as soon as she got pregnant and was later sent to a hospital for institutional delivery...
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