With the BRT Wildlife Sanctuary in Karnataka going to get a tiger reserve status, the Soligas living there face imminent eviction.NEVER before have the tigers of the Biligiri Rangaswamy Temple (BRT) Wildlife Sanctuary burned so bright, either in popular imagination or in administrative priority. With the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests approving “in principle” the status of a tiger reserve for the BRT sanctuary, the endangered cat has taken...
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This village rooted for toilets, not girls by Deepender Deswal
Farmana, a village in Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda's home district Rohtak, boasts of the cleanest toilets but its social indicators still reflect Haryana's feudal mindset. Its sex ratio is far below the state average. A Nirmal Gram awardee for "total sanitation programme", and also holder of the Adarsh Gram status, Farmana has a sex ratio of 648 girls to 1,000 boys — one of the low sex ratios in...
More »Judge, family have NREGS job card by Raghu Paithari
A Maharashtra district judge is employed under a key central government job scheme meant for the poorest of the poor in Jukkal Mandal of Nizamabad district in Andhra Pradesh. Judge Vijayrao Patel's employment under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MNREGS) reflects the rampant corruption in the widely-publicized national job guarantee programme for the village poor. Patel, a Sholapur district judge, has an MNREGS job card (ID no 09011011038) issued...
More »An income commission for farmers by Sreelatha Menon
When little children in cities have a Happy Meal burger at McDonalds and get a Batman car or Ben 10 toy free, they are getting much more for free — all gift-wrapped by wheat and potato farmers in some far-off village. They are not paying for the labour put in by the farmer, the profits forgone by him, and the higher cost of living that he did not bill on...
More »Trinamool farmers revolt against Didi’s Railways by Susenjit Guha
Farmers affiliated to the Trinamool Congress whose agricultural land was acquired for a railway project are threatening a major agitation if their family members are not provided with jobs immediately. Their land was acquired for the proposed 20 km Dankuni-Furfura Sharif track in West Bengal and Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee had promised a job for every family whose land was taken.Agricultural landowners of Furfura Sharif, a major Muslim pilgrimage site...
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