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 Sardar Sarovar Dam on the river Narmada
Special economic zones and sit-ins. Mega-projects and marches. Public-private partnerships and pitched battles. Precociously, because they are desperate, state governments are willing to hand land, forest, water over to industry.<br><br> Raucously, because they are really desperate, people all over India have begun to use all available means to contest the usually coercive intrusion of the State into their lives, and livelihoods. <br><br> Consider, as symptom, the Orissa government
State govts are willing to hand land, forest, water over to industry. But more desperately, people all over India have begun to use all available means to contest the usually coercive intrusion of the State into their lives -Ashutosh Mishra South Korean steel giant POSCO's proposed steel plant hangs in virtual limbo. Popular resistance by the POSCO Pratirodh Sangram Samiti has rendered land acquisition for the Rs 51,000 crore project-hailed as a foreign direct investment coup-quite impossible.
Mumbai, July 24 Even as the construction of first metro rail between Versova and Ghatkopar via Andheri is under way, the displaced shop owners and tenants at the J P Road in Andheri are still breathing nervously due to the "vagueness' on their rehabilitation.
Vivek Mehra / New Delhi July 25, 2008, 0:08 IST The book is a thoroughly researched one. Palit and Bhattacharjee have successfully attempted to demystify the special economic zone (SEZ) phenomenon. The facts surrounding SEZs are presented in a simple and systematic manner.
Movement of vehicles at Karandih-Hata Road came to a grinding halt for two hours this morning as activists of Jharkhand Disom Party (JDP) blocked the road as a part of the Jharkhand bandh. The bandh call was given opposing the rehabilitation and re-settlement (R&R) policy, which was approved by the state cabinet recently. Carrying placards and banners, the activists of the party assembled at Karandih, a tribal dominated area.
A high-power committee to be set up for the same NEW DELHI: The Union Government is evolving out-of-the-box rehabilitation packages for people displaced on account of new hydel projects in the country. This was stated by Union Power Secretary Anil Razdan at the conclusion of a State Power Secretaries' Conference organised by the PHD Chamber on Tuesday. Mr. Razdan said the Government was seriously considering evolving a viable and friendly rehabilitation package for people who had been displaced because of the upcoming hydel projects.
The Delhi University (DU) will soon get a rehabilitation centre to help students quit smoking and drinking, Union health minister Anbumani Ramadoss said on Tuesday. He was speaking at a programme on "smoking-free campus" organised by the students' union organisation. "The Delhi University is leading the anti-tobacco programme and I promise that very soon the varsity will get a rehabilitation centre," he said. According to World Lung Organisation data, out of the 40,000 students studying in the North Campus of the university, 24 per cent boys and seven per cent girls are smokers.
Mumbai, July 20 As Asia's largest slum readies for makeover, residents of an
The government needs to learn from the hundreds of farmers who, right in the so-called suicide zones of Vidarbha, have initiated efforts for debt-free, low-cost, environment-friendly farming practices, says Bharat Dogra
