-Scroll.in An Assam MP explains why he introduced the Climate Migrants (Protection and Rehabilitation) Bill in Lok Sabha. According to the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, nearly five million Indians were forced to leave their homes because of climate-related events in 2021. While many of these people were displaced temporarily, internal displacement due to climatic conditions stands to be a major challenge for India in the years to come. Rising water levels, according...
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Technology eases path for the weary nomads in J&K -Peerzada Ashiq
-The Hindu The nomadic communities of J&K have been offered smart cards and free transport to aid their biannual migration For centuries, Jammu and Kashmir’s nomadic community, known as Gujjars and Bakerwals, have undertaken arduous journeys on foot as part of their seasonal migration to find better pastures for their livestock. They often lose cattle and, on occasion, family members to accidents and hardships along the way. However, technological solutions and transport...
More »About 2% of state's Grazing Land under encroachment: Maharashtra govt tells Bombay HC -Vidya
-India Today The Maharashtra government informed the Bombay High Court that 2.23 per cent of four lakh hectares of Grazing Land in the state are under encroachment. In Short: * About 2.23 per cent of the total Grazing Land in Maharashtra is under encroachment * 24,513 encroachments have been removed from July 12, 2011 to September 15, 2022 * Bombay HC court asked the state govt what steps will it take to remove the encroachments The...
More »Grazing Lands turning into buffer zones, says chief of village bordering LAC -Vijaita Singh
-The Hindu He said that every disengagement process, the Army climbed down further, thereby ceding the space to China and creating new buffer zones. The village head of one of the last settlements along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Ladakh’s Chushul said on Tuesday that in the past year at least three large grazing areas near the village have been turned into “no man’s land” or “buffer zones” after Indian...
More »Cracked earth & nasty weeds: How UP farmers are battling a drought to save their rice crop -Sayantan Bera
-ThePrint.in In 5 east UP districts, where rice is primary rain-fed crop, the overwhelming sentiment is despair. For most, planting has been delayed by over a month, which means a drop in yield. Hardoi, Rae Bareli, Barabanki: From a distance, the sight of cattle grazing with abandon in a lush meadow appeared like that default desktop screensaver — a serene landscape spanning over a hundred acres, the deep green of the fields...
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