Tribal people to get basic facilities
The district administration and the Tribal Welfare Department have taken a serious note of the plight of the Malampandaram tribe at Nilackal and Chalakkayam in the Sabarimala forests. Responding to a...
View ArticlePESA Act to be implemented soon
The government is gearing up to implement the Panchayat Extension to Scheduled Area (PESA) Act 1996, Forest Minister Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan has said. An official release quoting him said the...
View ArticleCaught in the Acts
The fate of lakhs of forest dwellers hangs fire as the battle for control of Maharashtra’s mammoth forest cover galvanises, with green lobbies, bureaucrats, activists and environmentalists of all...
View ArticlePanchayat act to empower tribespeople in 2,445 hamlets
Kozhikode: In a major step towards tribal empowerment, the state is all set to implement the Panchayat (Extension to Scheduled Areas) Act (PESA) in 2,445 tribal hamlets coming under 31 panchayats and...
View ArticleKerala government to provide free insulin pumps for diabetic children
Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala has decided toprovide insulin pumps free of cost to diabetic children. This decision was taken in a Cabinet meeting in view of the increase in number of cases of diabetes...
View ArticleNudged by RSS, state keen to hammer out broad tribal policy
Bhopal: Keen to shed anti-dalit and anti-tribal image, the state government is considering to draw a comprehensive policy on Dalits and tribals in the state as envisaged by its fountainhead...
View ArticleMP govt plans a comprehensive tribal policy, courtesy RSS
BHOPAL: In order to shed away the anti-dalit and anti-tribal tag, the Madhya Pradesh government is keen to implement a comprehensive policy on Dalits and tribals in the state, envisaged by its...
View ArticleCollector to lead team to tribal colony
: District Collector S. Harikishore will lead a team of officials attached to various government departments to the tribal hamlet of Sayippinkuzhy in the forest areas of Seethathode on May 28. The...
View Article21 villages in Palghar tehsil brought under PESA Act
Palghar: The Kokan Divisional Commissioner has issued a notification declaring 21 villages in Palghar tehsil in the district as 'PESA villages' under the Panchayat Extension to Scheduled Areas Act. The...
View ArticleGovt comes to forest dwellers' aid
Jaipur: Devi Lal's house was among 16 in Khajuria village of Salumbar tehsil, Udaipur, that was pulled down by officials of the forest department on May 13. He says he lives now in the ruins - who is...
View Article‘Process will soon begin for distribution of title deeds’
M. Madan Gopal, Additional Chief Secretary (Forest, Ecology and Environment), has said that the process of distribution of title deeds among the families displaced by Sharavati hydroelectricity project...
View ArticleWhy Janu, Kerala’s tribal face, isn’t talking ‘land’ in Wayanad
Vote for change, says Janu “I am not making any new promises,” says C K Janu, 46, the face of some of the biggest tribal agitations in Kerala in recent years. She is contesting from the hill district...
View ArticleCh'nagar takes credit for successful implementation of Forest Rights Act
The district has successfully implemented the Forest Rights Act in the state, benefiting hundreds of people belonging to the Soliga and Jenu Kuruba community living in tribal hamlets in the forests....
View ArticleFate of 50 farmers still hangs in the balance
The suicide of Kavilpurayidathil Joy, a settler farmer from Chakkittappara, after the Revenue Department reportedly refused to accept tax for his land which he had been cultivating for years, has...
View ArticleMeet soon to resolve issues under Forest Dwellers Act
Minister for Social Welfare H. Anjaneya on Friday said that a high-level meeting chaired by Chief Minister will soon be convened to resolve issues with regard to the Scheduled Tribes and Other...
View ArticleKerala to extend ‘community kitchens’ to all tribal hamlets
The ‘community kitchen’ scheme, a nutritional meal programme envisaged to address the malnutrition issues of tribals in Kerala, will soon be extended to all tribal hamlets across the state. The...
View ArticleVACB to start benefit-tracking audit in Attappady
The Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Bureau (VACB), under the State government, will soon initiate a benefit-tracking audit on all the multi-crore special packages and projects implemented in the last 10...
View ArticleOdisha Governor urged to return land bill for reconsideration
Alleging that the recently-passed Odisha Government Land Grabbing (Prohibition) Bill, 2015, has many inherent flaws, more than 30 different organisations have urged Governor S. C. Jamir to send the...
View ArticleLoan waiver scheme for tribespeople launched
Minister for Welfare of Scheduled Tribes P.K. Jayalakshmi inaugurated the State-level launch of Aswasakiranam project, a loan waiver scheme for the tribespeople in the State, at Panamaram in the...
View ArticleHigh-level meeting on Forest Dwellers Act soon: Minister Anjaneya
Minister for Social Welfare H. Anjaneya on Friday said a high-level meeting chaired by Chief Minister would soon be convened to resolve issues with regard to the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional...
View ArticleForest ministry scraps jumbo parade
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The state government has scrapped a controversial proposal to conduct a mammoth 'gajamela' in Thiruvananthapuram by parading 101 elephants during an annual tribal festival set to...
View ArticleBegin land allotment in two months, HC to govt
KOCHI: In a move expected to benefit thousands, the high court has asked the state government to take immediate steps to assign land to landless tribespeople. Allotment of land should commence within...
View ArticleOver 2,000 title deeds since 1986, but no land yet for tribespeople
Palakkad: The tribespeople of Attapadi have received over 2,000 pattayams (title deeds) for land since 1986 but they haven't got even an inch in their possession so far. No wonder, the latest offer...
View ArticleCPI seeks solution to issues of tribes
The Communist Party of India (CPI) has demanded effective intervention of the government to solve issues concerning the tribespeople. The demand was made after a team of CPI MLAs visited various tribal...
View ArticleCall to implement Forest Rights Act
The Centre and State governments should declare the tribal areas in the State under the 5th Schedule of the Constitution so that it provides protection to tribal people and does not alienate them from...
View ArticlePESA rekindles hopes of tribespeople
The move to bring 31 grama panchayats and one municipality under the provisions of the Panchayats (Extension to the Scheduled Areas) Act, 1996, better known as PESA, has rekindled the hope among tribal...
View Article‘Governors failed in role as custodian of tribals’
The Indian State’s initiatives over the decades towards integration of tribals in the mainstream population do not amount to affirmative action, but only terms of exchange, former deputy director of...
View ArticleContractors hijacking works: tribal forum
Tribal organisations in the district have sought a Vigilance probe into the alleged anomalies in allotting funds for building houses for tribespeople at Pulpally grama panchayat in the district. In a...
View ArticlePESA rollout awaits Centre’s nod
Though Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s comparison of the tribal situation in Attappady with the human development indices of Somalia has evoked nation-wide attention, official attempts to bring three...
View ArticleA village in Maharashtra that wanted a forest, and got one
Granted 98 ha shrubby land, Kumbhiwagholi is now a ‘village forest’. Deepak Daware Kumbhiwagholi, a village of Korku tribals on the foothills of Melghat, is unique in many ways. First, it came up out...
View ArticleTribal organisations cry foul of CAMPA
--> dna Correspondent | Fri, 29 Jul 2016-08:00am , New Delhi , dna The BJP government may have managed to pass the CAMPA bill but it has earned the wrath of tribal organisations and activists across...
View ArticleCall to amend Panchayati Raj Act
: With the State set to implement the PESA (Panchayat Extension to Scheduled Areas) Act, the Kerala Panchayati Raj Act needs necessary amendments, a two-day national seminar held at Kerala...
View ArticleAllot land to tribespeople: HC
Much to the relief of the tribespeople who have long been demanding assignment of land, the Kerala High Court has directed the State government to take immediate steps to allot and assign land to...
View ArticleIssue of title deeds to tribespeople
The government will expedite steps to issue title deeds to tribespeople in forested areas, Forest Minister...
View ArticleAway from public eye A life in misery and hardship
A survey held last month on school and college dropouts in Edamalakudi, one of the remotest tribal panchayats in Kerala comprising 26 settlements spread over vast tracts of forests in the Munnar forest...
View ArticleLandless tribesmen in a quandary
recent directive of the Kerala High Court to evict those who have encroached on forestland after 1977 has put the landless tribesmen who are on a path of agitation in Wayanad in a fix. A Division Bench...
View Article‘Government has deceived landless tribespeople’
The tribespeople in the district, under the aegis of the Adivasi Ekopana Samiti, staged a collectorate march and dharna, to press for their demands, on Monday....
View ArticleRoad to progress a dream for tribespeople
: The road to Edaliparakudy, which was ‘opened’ with much fanfare, last year, remains a dream to the people of Edamalakkudy – the remotest tribal grama panchayat in Kerala. Several portions of the...
View ArticleFast asleep on funds
Funds have never been an issue for the Edamalakkudy grama panchayat but spending it is. The Chief Minister announced Rs.23.52 crore last week for infrastructure in the tribal settlements but the local...
View ArticlePanchayat panels to demarcate ESA land in 119 villages
he government has decided to carry out field-level verification to demarcate the forest land to be earmarked as Ecologically Sensitive Area (ESA) in the villages in Kerala identified by the...
View ArticleOn the govt. radar, only during polls
Located deep inside the Siruvani forests bordering the Coimbatore district of Tamil Nadu, the Muduga tribal settlement at Chingampara is one of the remotest polling booths in the State with just 53...
View ArticleKSRTC ordinary bus fares cut by Re.1
The Cabinet has decided to slash the Kerala State Road Transport Corporation (KSTRC) ordinary bus fares by Re.1. The decision has been made to pass on the benefit of the fall in oil prices to the...
View ArticleKSRTC bus fare cut by Re.1
The Cabinet has decided to slash the Kerala State Road Transport Corporation (KSTRC) ordinary bus fares by Re.1. The decision has been made to pass on the benefit of the fall in oil prices to the...
View ArticleTribespeople lay siege to Wayanad collectorate
Hundreds of tribespeople under the aegis of the Adivasi Kshema Samiti (AKS), a tribal outfit of the CPI(M) laid siege to the collectorate here on Monday raising a slew of demands including providing...
View ArticleRevenue slams decision to return land to forest dept
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The decision of a state-level monitoring committee headed by chief secretary Jiji Thomson to return 71 acres to the forest department has not gone down well with revenue minister...
View ArticleImplementation of Rule-2017 under PESA Act to empower tribal people: Gujarat...
GANDHINAGAR: Chief Minister Vijay Rupani launched implementation of the Rule-2017 under the Panchayats (Extension to Scheduled Areas) Act in 4,503 gram sabhas under 2,584 village panchayats in 50...
View ArticleWork on for better colonies: CM
The government is taking the necessary steps to improve the basic living conditions of tribespeople in the State, Chief Minister Oommen Chandy has said. During his visit to the Kaananasangamom, being...
View ArticleList of 457 PESA villages ready
NASHIK: The district administration has drawn up a plan to create 457 Panchayat Raj Extension to Scheduled Areas Act (PESA) villages by dividing the existing group gram panchayats comprising over three...
View ArticleAll tribespeople to be given land: Minister
The government has extended the last date for tribespeople to apply for land under the Forest Rights Act. Minister for Environment and Forest Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan said here on Monday that...
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