Stopped tribals from grabbing land: TS Forest dept.
2 years, 5 months ago

Stopped tribals from grabbing land: TS Forest dept.

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: A day after forest department staff and tribals clashed over the podu land issue in Mancherial district, the department has clarified that it is only trying to stop encroachment of the Kawal Tiger Reserve. Eight adivasi women and two women forest staff were injured in clashes at Koya Poshaguda in Dandepally mandal of Mancherial district on Friday. As per the department, Koya Poshaguda villagers started clearing the forest in November 2021, but were stopped for a few months after they were counselled but they resumed clearing the forest in May 2022 and only women were utilised for the activity. As per the forest department, several forest officers visited the site and urged the villagers to clear it, but the tribals did not comply as they reportedly had support from many political parties and some adivasi federations, stated the forest department.

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A Kerala village heaves sigh of relief after three women missing in dense forest rescued after 15-hour search
3 weeks, 4 days ago

A Kerala village heaves sigh of relief after three women missing in dense forest rescued after 15-hour search

The Hindu  

After over 15 hours of frenetic search during which an entire village was on tenterhooks, the three women who had gone missing in a dense forest at Attikalam in Anakkayam division of Kuttampuzha panchayat in Kothamangalam in Ernakulam district of Kerala were tracked down almost 6 km deep inside the forest around 6.30 a.m. on Friday. A protracted search by …

Two forest officials attacked by mob in in Andhra's Palnadu
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Two forest officials attacked by mob in in Andhra's Palnadu

New Indian Express  

GUNTUR: Two forest department officials were injured in an attack by relatives of a smuggler in Veldurthi mandal, Palnadu district, on Monday. In response, Palnadu district authorities have heightened surveillance in the forest areas to curb illegal animal poaching. Spanning 1.5 lakh hectares, the district’s forest cover has seen previous smuggling activities, including a recent case involving six individuals smuggling …

Tribals under pressure from Bangla infiltrators: Marandi
5 months ago

Tribals under pressure from Bangla infiltrators: Marandi

New Indian Express  

RANCHI: Following an alleged attack on tribal households after a dispute over making an objectionable edited video of a girl viral on social media by her neighbour, state BJP Chief Babulal Marandi has said that the tribals in Jharkhand are being threatened by Bangladeshi infiltrators to hand over their land to them. Terming it a clear case of ‘land-jihad’, Marandi …

Adivasi Kondhs protest omission of their names during land resurvey
9 months, 2 weeks ago

Adivasi Kondhs protest omission of their names during land resurvey

The Hindu  

The tribals of K. Gadhabapalem village of Anakapalli district staged a protest near the statue of Alluri Sitharama Raju in their village on March 6, deploring district administration’s “inordinate delay” in the implementation of the orders of the Chairman of Andhra Pradesh ST Commission directing Anakapalli Collector to probe into the issue of omission of their names from land resurvey. …

8 forest dept officials attacked by villagers in Karnataka
1 year, 2 months ago

8 forest dept officials attacked by villagers in Karnataka

Hindustan Times  

Belagavi A total of 16 vehicles were damaged by the villagers. Eight personnel of the state forest department, including the range forest officer were allegedly attacked by villagers, who were opposing a survey conducted by the department of the encroached forest land in Belagavi district, officials said on Monday. According to the officials, the villagers of the Gokak taluk attacked …

Withdraw Cases Against Tribal Podu Cultivators: KCR tells DGP, CS
1 year, 5 months ago

Withdraw Cases Against Tribal Podu Cultivators: KCR tells DGP, CS

Deccan Chronicle  

Adilabad: Giving huge relief to tribal podu cultivators who are getting pattas, Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao on Friday instructed Chief Secretary A. Santhi Kumari, Principal Chief Conservator of Forests R.M. Rao was speaking at an event after formally distributing podu pattas to some tribals at a function after inaugurating the integrated district offices complex in Komaram Bheem Asifabad district. …

Forest officials narrowly evade axe-wielding Guttikoya tribals
1 year, 9 months ago

Forest officials narrowly evade axe-wielding Guttikoya tribals

Deccan Chronicle  

WARANGAL: Forest officials had a narrow escape on Tuesday, after being chased by axe-wielding tribals of the Guttikoya community while carrying out trenching work in the forests between Thadvai and Kothaguda mandals. Wazahath of Kothaguda had ordered officials in the Ootai forest area to visit Buddha Gadda and undertake trenching work on podu land which was being cultivated by the …

Forest staff demands security before resuming field work
2 years, 1 month ago

Forest staff demands security before resuming field work

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: Pained over losing a colleague and attacks on others going unabated, Telangana forest service officers have decided to take a tough stand and demanded that the state government take immediate steps, including providing arms to frontline staff to prevent further attacks. M. Raja Ramana Reddy, general secretary of State Forest Service Officers Association, told Deccan Chronicle that a delegation …

Tribals hack forest officer to death over podu land issue
2 years, 1 month ago

Tribals hack forest officer to death over podu land issue

Deccan Chronicle  

KOTHAGUDEM: The ongoing conflict over podu lands took a violent turn on Tuesday, with tribals of the Gothikoya community hacking a forest range officer to death in Bendalampadu of Kothagudem district. Srinivasa Rao, and section officer Rama Rao were inspecting saplings planted by the forest department in Chandrugonda mandal. Rama Rao said that tribals were spotted cutting down saplings planted …

Forest staff face double whammy in safeguarding land
2 years, 1 month ago

Forest staff face double whammy in safeguarding land

Deccan Chronicle  

KHAMMAM: Officials of the forest department claimed immense pressure in undertaking the podu land survey, with MLAs, politicians and farmers considering forest officials their ‘enemies’ and the police, revenue officials and the administration not cooperating in protecting forest land. In an incident on July 8 this year, two women forest staff and eight Adivasi women were injured in a clash …

Podu cultivators and forest staff clash over rights on podu lands
2 years, 5 months ago

Podu cultivators and forest staff clash over rights on podu lands

Deccan Chronicle  

ADILABAD: With the onset of rains, the podu land issue created a tense situation in the erstwhile Adilabad district and people feel that it is high time the state government intervened and resolved the issue. In the latest clash between forest officials and tribals, two women forest staff and eight adivasi women were injured over the podu lands issue at …

Tribal women stage novel protest against clearing of plantations for a mining project
2 years, 8 months ago

Tribal women stage novel protest against clearing of plantations for a mining project

The Hindu  

A small group of tribal women staged a novel but macabre and scary protest on April 8 at Urlalovakonda, a hilltop village in Andhra Pradesh’s Visakhapatnam district. The five tribal women—Singarapu Rajulamma, Thokala Rajulamma, Solam Lakshmi, Thokala Erukamm, and Satyavati—and their families were protesting the clearing of cashew plantations deploying earth-movers in order to facilitate mining. The women claimed that …

Women staff worried as forest wing gears up for Haritha Haram in podu lands
2 years, 8 months ago

Women staff worried as forest wing gears up for Haritha Haram in podu lands

Deccan Chronicle  

Adilabad: Women employees in the forest department working in the field face a threat to their lives while the department gears up to plant trees under Haritha Haram on disputed podu lands. There are allegations that senior officers were pushing women employees to the field whenever villagers staged a protest against plantations on podu or disputed lands. Many women have …

Tribals for early settlement of claims under Forest Rights Act
2 years, 10 months ago

Tribals for early settlement of claims under Forest Rights Act

The Hindu  

Representatives of tribals from Hunsur have urged the authorities to recognise their claims under the Forest Rights Act so as to enable them to follow their traditional practices. Ramu, convenor of Haadi Aranya Hakku Samithigala Okkuta, said that the tribals had submitted their applications under the FRA in 2009 to press for their claims and rights under the Act. Mr. …

Uttar Pradesh's Tharu Adivasi women resist systemic usurpation of their forest land, rights by local authorities
4 years, 5 months ago

Uttar Pradesh's Tharu Adivasi women resist systemic usurpation of their forest land, rights by local authorities

Firstpost  

During COVID-19 lockdown, Tharu Adivasi communities — of Kajaria village along the India-Nepal border in Lakhimpur Kheri district of eastern Uttar Pradesh — have been continuously resisting the Forest Department’s restrictions put on them to access their community forests and also violent attacks. On the evening of 1 July 2020, a Tharu woman, Virmati, filed a FIR at Gauriphanta police …

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