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By: TNN
Date: February 16th 2016
Source: The Times of India
CHENNAI: A small plot of land Bagwati Sundar, a senior citizen living in Tambaram, bought in 1986 near Hindu College was safe, ironically, only till the state government showed interest in acquiring it.
"When we successfully avoided…
By: Chetan R, Bangalore Mirror Bureau
Date: February 16th 2016
Source: Bangalore Mirror
In a curious case, a routine hearing at the state information commission on denial of information exposed a 20-acre land grabbing case in the real estate hotbed of Doddaballapur.
Interestingly, even after…
By: Manish Kumar
Date: February 16th 2016
Source: India Infoline News Service
About 377 million people from India’s total population of 1.21 billion are urban dwellers. With more than 10 million people migrating to cities and towns every year, the total urban population is expected to reach about…
By: Press Trust of India
Date: February 17th 2016
Source: Business Standard
After the implementation of the decision, decks would be cleared for regularisation of encroachments on land.
Himachal Pradesh Cabinet on Tuesday decided to provide a financial assistance of Rs 30,000 for coaching to…
By: Nitin Sethi
Date: February 18th 2016
Source: Business Standard
Forest Rights Act allows government to divert forest lands for other purposes only after prior consent of the tribals through gram sabhas
Forest rights of tribals over their traditional lands in Ghatbarra village of Surguja…
Date: February 24th 2016
Source: Sri Lanka Guardian
Farmers, adivasis and landless rural workers to assemble at Jantar Mantar
( February 24, 2016, New Delhi, Sri Lanka Guardian) Subsequent government policies have for long ignored the demands of its most poor and marginalised sections. The…
By: Siddharth Ranjan Das
Date: February 27th 2016
Source: NDTV
SARGUJA: Deep inside Chhattisgarh's Hasdeo Arand forest, the silence of the woods is broken by the mechanical sounds of coal mine workers cutting trees near the Ghatbarra village of Sarguja district.
But around 300 tribal families…
By: Staff reporter
Date: March 2nd 2016
Source: The Hindu
Campaigning for land rights for the marginalised sections of society, people from various parts of Tamil Nadu participated in a demonstration organised by Unorganised Workers Federation and National Alliance for People’s Movements, on…
By: TNN
Date: March 8th 2016
Source: Times of India
Lucknow - On the eve of International Women's Day, while UP [Uttar Pradesh] celebrates an increased participation of women in its block and zila panchayats, higher even than the Central proposal of 50% reservation for women in local bodies,…
By: Tadit Kundu
Date: March 9th 2016
Source: Live Mint
With close to 25 million people living in Mumbai and Delhi combined, India’s urbanization has clearly been lop-sided
Mumbai and Delhi, India’s two biggest cities, account for almost 60% of its billionaires . Those in China are more evenly…
By: TNN
Date: March 8th 2016
Source: Times of India
BALASORE: The Mayurbhanj district administration has handed over land pattas - documents of legal rights - to 1,938 single landless women. The women received legal rights to homestead land at a ceremony on Saturday.
The programme has been made…
By: Trushna Udgirkar
Date: March 15th 2016
Source: Live Mint
Chennai has lost more than one-fifth of its greenery in 20 years as the city urbanized rapidly, according to a study by IISc
Hyderabad: Chennai lost more than one-fifth of its greenery in 20 years as the city urbanized rapidly, a…