In order to use tenanted land for setting up of projects for community or public purpose, the Goa government has introduced the Goa Land Use (Regulation) Bill, 2024 seeking amendment to Section 3 of Goa
The Union Home Minister, Shivraj Patil, today announced that the Central Government would release an amount of Rs 500 crore to Assam for relief and rehabilitation of the flood-affected people. He made the announcement after an aerial survey of the flood-affected areas of the State today.
GANDHINAGAR: The powerful pro-Narmada dam lobby in Gujarat has decided to field two international experts to counter the arguments advanced in the latest treatise published by Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) study, 'Performance and Development Effectiveness of the Sardar Sarovar Project (SSP),' which seeks to doubt the project's potential to deliver its proclaimed benefits .
KOCHI: Tribal people encroached the Devikulam divisional forest office premises on Saturday morning. A group of people, including women and children trespassed into the area. The police had stopped another attempt to encroach the forest land at Perinjamkutty on Friday. The tribal people, who were given land at Chinnakkanal as part of the rehabilitation scheme, encroached into the area, said the officials.The encroachment attempt was made alleging that the given land was not suitable for residential purposes due to disturbance from wild elephants.
Chandigarh, September 05 The Manimajra Farmers Welfare and Environment Protection Society reiterated their accusation against the Chandigarh Administration of having a biased attitude towards them. In the executive body meeting of the society, the members said the Administration is misleading the people by suppressing and twisting the facts.
NEW DELHI With Bihar still grappling with the ravages of the Kosi floods, the rural development ministry has chipped in with a massive additional allocation of Rs 1,600 crores for the relief and rehabilitation work in the state.
Jamshedpur, Sept. 4: The list of the displaced under the Subernarekha Multipurpose Project (SMP) is all set to swell with the state government deciding to initiate fresh survey for identifying the beneficiaries who had been left out after the earlier process. At present, around 14,000 people have found a place in the development books that were prepared by the water resources department. After the first survey done in 1985, only 10,000 people were included in the development books. However, protest from villagers forced the government to initiate new surveys in the region.
M.S. Swaminathan Action to revive livelihoods when thefloods recede is as important as savinglives. This will call for a proactive,
TRINAMOOL MEETS WEST BENGAL GOVERNOR Bs Reporter / Kolkata September 1, 2008, 0:27 IST The impasse at Singur caused by the indefinite protest in front of Tata Motors Nano-manufacturing plant by the Trinamool Congress and its allies under Mamata Banerjee seemed to have moved closer to a resolution today even as Tata Motors indicated it would not send its workers and officers to the plant site on September 1.
Jamshedpur: The hungry tides of Kosi may have rendered them homeless, but hope continues to float for Bihar
Peasants across India are opposing development projects which displaced them from their land, habitat, livelihood and environment. They are questioning the paradign of development itself which is so heavily loaded against them. The law on land acquisition is central to the understanding of this hostility to development.
