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Tribal Ministry Opposes Environment Ministry on Bid to Dilute Gram Sabha Powers

Chitrangada Choudhury 12/04/2019

A letter from the environment ministry to state governments...

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Chhattisgarh’s ‘No-Go Area’ for Coal Mining Faces the Prospect of Being Opened Up

Debayan Gupta and Bipasha Paul 05/10/2018

The Hasdeo Arand spans more than 1,70,000 hectares of...

A vote-taking exercise underway at a gram sabha in Bilmad. Source: Authors provided

The Myth of Self-Governance in Scheduled Areas Needs to Be Dispelled

Nikita Sonavane and Tanay Gandhi 04/08/2018

Since the Panchayats (Extension to Scheduled Areas) Act was...

The location of Gadchiroli, Maharashtra. Source: Google Maps

Maharashtra Denies Habitat Rights to the Most Backward Tribal Communities

Asavari Raj Sharma 16/07/2018

The status of implementation of habitat rights is quite...

Mahua (left) and a variety of medicinal rice. Credit (both): Pankaj Oudhia/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0

India Has Recognised Forest Rights but Intervention Is Still Necessary

Geetanjoy Sahu and Asavari Raj Sharma 01/05/2018

There is an opportunity to shape the Forest Rights...