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By: Express News Service Date: August 28th 2016 Source: the New Indian Express BHUBANESWAR: The Gajapati district administration has launched a Women Support Centre (WSC) programme to prioritise land allocation to landless single women and help them access various Government schemes. The WSC…
By: Rina Chandran Date: September 2nd 2016 Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Women in parts of conflict-hit central and eastern India are more vulnerable to violence and eviction from their land because a decades-long insurgency has made it harder for them…
Date: September 3rd 2016 Source: The News Pakistan Women in parts of conflict-hit central and eastern India are more vulnerable to violence and eviction from their land because a decades-long insurgency has made it harder for them to claim equal land rights, according to a new study. Thousands of…
By: Rina Chandran Date: September 6th 2016 Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - India will nearly double the budget and extend the deadline for a programme to digitise land records as states struggle to survey land and property, large chunks of which have not…
Date: September 7th 2016 Source: Counter View A new study by the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), “World Cities Report 2016: Urbanization and Development – Emerging Futures” has regretted extremely low levels of “aggregate municipal expenditures in India”, which happen to…
By: Rina Chandran Date: September 13th 2016 Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When India's Tata Power engaged SPARC, a group focused on housing for the urban poor, to help relocate hundreds of families living under and around its distribution towers, it was…
Date: 20 September 2016 Source: The Times of India AHMEDABAD: The agitation for handing over of surplus land to landless dalits in villages of Dholka taluka has grown more intense, as protesters of the community kept demonstrating even as city police detained them several times on Sunday. On…
By: Rina Chandran Date: 22 September 2016  Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation   Marginalised low-caste Dalits are fighting against victimisation and demanding land that is owed to them   MUMBAI, Sept 22 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited his…
By: Rina Chandran Date: September 26th 2016 Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation VEMULAGHAT, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The peacefulness of the lush green fields of paddy and maize lining the road to Vemulaghat village in Telangana, India belies the anger of villagers protesting against…
By: Annie Gowen Date: September 29th 2016 Source: The Washington Post INDIA’S DIVIDE | This is part of a series about oppression and violence against women in India as a rising generation collides with old social mores. SOHAGPUR, India — It was her land, she said, and she was tired of her uncle…
By: Jatindra Dash Date: October 3rd 2016 Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation BHUBANESWAR, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Villagers in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand vowed to continue their protest against a coal mine after four people were killed when police opened fire during clashes…
By: Express News Service  Date: October 5th 2016 Source: The Indian Express Gujarat government has asked the revenue department to expedite the conversion of new tenure land to old tenure after the completion of the mandatory 15-year period. “The existing law for converting new tenure land into…