INTERVIEW | ‘People displaced decades ago face problems even now’

4 weeks, 2 days ago

“Increase compensation”: Priyanka Gandhi raises human-animal conflict in Wayanad

Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Monday raised the issue of human-animal conflict in her constituency Wayanad urging the ruling dispensation to raise the compensation for those affected by it. So, I would also like to ask that the compensation be increased, especially for farmers and ordinary people who are being affected by this conflict,” she asked in her maiden …

Conflict Priyanka Gandhi Wayanad Constituency

1 month, 2 weeks ago

Minister Laxmi Hebbalkar Assists Displaced Family in Karnataka

Deccan Chronicle

Belagavi: Minister for women and child development Laxmi R. Hebbalkar, paused her journey on Wednesday to assist a family in distress near Hanaganahalli on the Vijayapura-Bagalkot highway. Moved by their plight, Hebbalkar immediately provided financial assistance and promised to expedite the family’s inclusion in various welfare schemes such as the Gruhalakshmi and Anna Bhagya schemes. She directed local officials to …

Family Hebbalkar

1 month, 3 weeks ago

Newsletter on artist Shakila and labourers of India

The Hindu

Published : Nov 22, 2024 11:59 IST - 4 MINS READ Dear Reader, While going through the Frontline archives recently, I chanced upon an article titled “Shakila’s saga” on the Bengali collage artist, Shakila. I remember standing in front of Shakila’s collage featuring goddess Durga, and being struck by the freshness of the depiction—her Durga smiled mischievously, while all around …

India Muslim Durga Artist Frontline Syeda Panesar

2 months, 3 weeks ago

State Governor Highlights Inclusive Growth Efforts, Focuses on Empowerment of Below Poverty Families

Deccan Chronicle

Governor Jishnu Dev Varma has emphasized the importance of ensuring that the fruits of development and benefits of welfare schemes reach every poor family in the state. He commended the district authorities for their achievement in reducing anemia cases to 21 per cent in 2024 from 73 in 2021. He also expressed happiness that 474 gram panchayats in the district …

3 months, 2 weeks ago

Welfare Measures for Disabled, Transgender and Senior Citizens Assured

Deccan Chronicle

Visakhapatnam: District collector of Parvathipuram Manyam A. Shyam Prasad unveiled plans to establish Sadaram Centers aimed at enhancing the welfare of disabled individuals, transgender persons and senior citizens. He highlighted the need for educational and employment reservations and announced upcoming camps across the district to help disabled individuals obtain necessary certificates. K. Kavitha, Assistant director of welfare for disabled, transgender …

Transgender Senior Citizens Individuals Disabled Individuals Disabled

4 months ago

Polavaram Project Oustees Hold Protest in Knee-deep Water, Demand Relief

Deccan Chronicle

Visakhapatnam: Several Adivasi families on Thursday staged a novel protest, standing in knee-deep floodwaters in Ginnela Bazar area of Kunavaram in Chintur division of ASR district. We all will go to Vijayawada and meet chief minister Chandrababu Naidu and deputy chief minister Pawan Kalyan to directly tell them of our problems,’’ said another woman. District collector Dinesh Kumar said the …

Polavaram Chintoor Project Oustees

4 months, 1 week ago

Wayanad landslides: Forum demands intensified search for missing persons

The Hindu

A meeting convened by the affected individuals in the aftermath of the Mundakkai and Chooralmala landslides has called for urgent and intensified search efforts in the Chaliyar area, particularly from the Sentinal rock water falls, to locate those still missing. They urged the government to provide adequate compensation for the injured, take responsibility for ongoing medical treatment, and compensate those …

Committee

4 months, 2 weeks ago

People, activists, politicians of Sagar oppose projects intended to divert Sharavathi river

The Hindu

Representatives of various organisations and environmentalists in Sagar have resolved to fight against the Sharavathi Pumped Storage project and the proposed diversion of the Sharavathi to Bengaluru. Akhilesh Chippali, an environmentalist, said the project to divert Sharavathi water to Bengaluru was proposed in 2019. ‘Harvest rainwater’ Mr. Chippali suggested that an effective mechanism to harvest rainwater would be one of …

Bengaluru Water Projects Project Sagar Sharavathi

5 months, 2 weeks ago

As India grows older, a secret shame emerges: Elders abandoned by their children

The Independent

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “They say, ‘He’ll come back …

India Children Parents Indian Man Families New Delhi

6 months, 1 week ago

'Raised in a Poor Dalit Family, Married at 18': MP Sanjana Jatav Tells Her Story

The Quint

Are you confident that you will manage your family and political career in the future as well as you do now? If you look at the neighbouring areas like Alwar, Dausa, and Karauli-Dholpur, you will see that they have developed. Areas like Alwar have factories, so the common people there can at least earn wages to sustain their families. So, …

Bharatpur

8 months, 1 week ago

In troubled waters, Polavaram voters await project completion

The Hindu

Amid the Lok Sabha elections, the Polavaram water project has taken centre stage with the political parties including the issue in their manifestoes and promising to complete the same if voted to power. Mr. Jagan Reddy promised to pay a compensation of ₹10 lakh per family, higher than the ₹6.86 lakh promised by the TDP government. Leave alone the Eluru …

Compensation Lok Sabha Project Centre Lakh Nda Ysrcp

10 months, 1 week ago

Realising the essence of the Sarvodaya ideal

Hindustan Times

Jyotibhai Desai, the veteran Gandhian worker, was living proof of the truth that freedom always is. Throughout his life Jyotibhai remained grateful for what he learnt in the shakha’s community — live frugally and work for the good of the nation. As the struggle for freedom gathered momentum, Jyotibhai became a satyagrahi, joining the Quit India movement and embracing Gandhi’s …

India Savarkar Jyotibhai Sarvodaya

11 months ago

Shobhaa De | Mandatory registration of ‘live-ins’? Way over the top!

Deccan Chronicle

Am I glad I am not a young person living in Uttarakhand these days. Too many “jhanjats”, I tell you… Let’s start with the compulsory registration of live-in relationships. There are way too many annoying issues in the bill, made still more annoying because of the goody-goody overlay which is artfully designed to convey magnanimous, pro-women intentions -- the State …

India Women Registrar Pawar State Chandigarh Woman

1 year, 1 month ago

Lives of simple villagers were drowned in big power projects in Karnataka

The Hindu

Sharadamma, 85, went to her family-owned farm a few metres away from her home at Sadagal village in Hosanagar taluk, looking for cattle on November 5 afternoon. The construction of the Madenur dam and Linganmakki dam across the Sharavathi river to generate electricity inundated many villages, forcing thousands of people like Sharadamma to move to different places. The Linganmakki dam …

Karnataka Construction Land Power State Dam Villages

1 year, 3 months ago

Tribal farmers turn into daily labourers no compensation for land acquired

Deccan Chronicle

Kakinada: The tribal farmers of Angaluru village in Devipatnam mandal of Alluri Sitarama Raju district are left high and dry without any compensation for the lands the government acquired to set up a power plant near the Polavaram Irrigation Project. The government issued the land acquisition notification in 2008 and acquired 44 acres of land from 38 farmers to construct …

Compensation Land Work Project Village Tribal Farmers Polavaram

1 year, 4 months ago

BJP MLA Ganesh Naik holds Jan Samvaad to deal with 800 grievances

Hindustan Times

Navi Mumbai: Public gathering convened by Member of Legislative Assembly Ganesh Naik conducted on Tuesday turned out to be the apt medium for former corporators and social activists to voice their concerns and issues of the city and the manner it is dealt with by Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation. BJP MLA Ganesh Naik holds Jan Samvaad to deal with 800 …

Mla Nmmc Residents Ganesh Naik

1 year, 5 months ago

Sharavathi project: Forest Minister directs officers to file interlocutory application in SC to allow grant of land to displaced families

The Hindu

Minister for Forests Eshwar Khandre has directed the officers to file an interlocutory application in the Supreme Court to allow the grant of land to the families who lost land for the Sharavathi reservoir project decades ago. Minister for Education Madhu Bangarappa, who is also Minister in charge of Shivamogga district, had written to the Ministers concerned to hold the …

Land Minister Malnad

1 year, 6 months ago

Malnad people want Congress govt to resolve land imbroglio in Karnataka

The Hindu

Malenadu Raitara Horata Samiti, a forum of farmers in the Malnad region, has resolved to stage a series of protests starting August 15 if the Karnataka Government fails to address the issue of land grant in Shivamogga district. Srinivasa, president of the forum, claimed that the people who parted with their land for Sharavathi reservoir and the bagair hukum cultivators …

Farmers Congress Malnad Shivamogga Resolve Land Land Imbroglio Resolve Land Imbroglio

1 year, 7 months ago

Government assures employment to Polavaram-affected tribal families

Deccan Chronicle

KAKINADA: Polavaram administrative officer C.V. Pravin Adithya said efforts are being made to provide employment opportunities to 5,800 tribal families displaced due to the irrigation project and residing in relief and rehabilitation colonies. Reviewing the rehabilitation status of tribes displaced by the project with officials of Chinturu and Rampachodavaram ITDA and Velugu on Thursday, Adithya pointed out that many tribal …

Tribal Families Employment Opportunities Polavaram Tribal Families Itda Project Officer

1 year, 11 months ago

People displaced by Sharavathi project will get relief soon, says BSY

The Hindu

The State Government will send a proposal to clear the grant of forest land to those who lost their land for Sharavathi project in the 1960s, former Chief Minister and Shikaripur MLA B.S. Following a High Court order, the State Government had withdrawn orders that de-notified forest lands. The court had noted that the government had not taken clearance from …

Forest Forest Land Yediyurappa Shivamogga Land Losers

2 years ago

Bidar bandh on January 5

The Hindu

The displaced families under Karanja Irrigation Project have given a call for ‘Bidar Bandh’ on January 5, demanding that the State government provide fair and scientific compensation under the new The Displaced Persons Act, 1954. Lakshmana Dasti, leader of Bidar Integrated Development Joint Action Committee and Karanja Victims’ Welfare Committee, addressing a press conference here on Friday said that committee …

Dasti Provide Fair

2 years, 1 month ago

ESSAY | Remembering the Dalit experience of Partition on Ambedkar’s death anniversary

The Hindu

Published : Dec 01, 2022 10:35 IST Remembering and forgetting go hand in hand. At the very beginning, they pay tribute to the “spirit of enterprise” and “hard work” of Partition refugees who came into Delhi. Dutta explained was through their “superior initiative and enterprise”, there is this passage from Greater Delhi about the refugee from East Bengal: “He is …

History India Refugees Delhi Pakistan Violence Dalit

2 years, 3 months ago

Landslides in Pettimudi: social inequalities in disasters

The Hindu

Irshad, Mohammed S. and Solaman, Christin S.S, ‘Identity, Space and Disaster: A Case Study of Pettimudi Landslide in Kerala’, Sage Journals, Vol 71, Issue no. 3, May 9, 2022 Among theories about the relevance of space as a social product and its relation with an individual’s or communities’ understanding of social realities, S. Mohammed Irshad and S.S. Christin Solaman’s article …

Disaster Space Kerala Authors Workers Incident State

2 years, 8 months ago

Four decades on, 63 Hindu families displaced from East Pakistan get land, houses

The Hindu

After a four-decade-long wait, 63 Hindu families displaced from East Pakistan were given houses, agricultural land and residential plots by the Uttar Pradesh Government on Tuesday. "Your 38-year-long wait is over today," the CM said in the presence of Deputy CMs Keshav Prasad Maurya and Brajesh Pathak and Jal Shakti Minister Swatantra Dev Singh. "I am happy while granting two …

Pakistan Families East Pakistan Vantangiya

2 years, 8 months ago

Four decades on, 63 Hindu families displaced from East Pakistan get land, houses

Firstpost

Lucknow: After a four-decade-long wait, 63 Hindu families displaced from East Pakistan were given houses, agricultural land and residential plots by the Uttar Pradesh government on Tuesday. “Your 38-year-long wait is over today,” the CM said in the presence of Deputy CMs Keshav Prasad Maurya and Brajesh Pathak and Jal Shakti Minister Swatantra Dev Singh. “I am happy while granting …

Pakistan Families East Pakistan Vantangiya

2 years, 10 months ago

Polavaram displaced families pin hopes on CM, central minister

Deccan Chronicle

KAKINADA: Polavaram Irrigation Project displaced families are pinning considerable hopes on a tour of relief and rehabilitation colonies in East and West Godavari districts by Chief Minister Y.S. An aspect providing a boost to displaced families is observation of Comptroller and Auditor General of India that there is no MoU between central and state governments on construction of Polavaram, which …

Compensation Polavaram Displaced Families Project Displaced

3 years, 6 months ago

Polavaram Project has ruined future of 60,000 SCs

Deccan Chronicle

KAKINADA: All India Forward Bloc has charged that lives of nearly 60,000 schedule caste people have been ruined due to Polavaram Project, as the state government has not provided them any alternative livelihood or lands. AIFB state secretary I. Suryanarayana said when Polavaram Project Authority conducted meetings at Vijayawada in July 2019, Relief and Rehabilitation commissioner had submitted a report …

Land Polavaram Project Scs West Godavari Suryanarayana

3 years, 7 months ago

India Today impact: Crumbling ward at Darbhanga hospital vacated

India Today

Over 100 Covid-19 patients, who were being treated in a dilapidated building at the Darbhanga Medical College Hospital in Bihar, have been shifted to a safer location. After India Today's ground report highlighting the crumbling health infrastructure in the district, the authorities have finally acted and shifted patients to a safer location. ?— P. Chidambaram May 15, 2021 Acting on …

India Bihar Hospital

3 years, 11 months ago

Himalayan glacier collapse triggers flood of mud and water with 150 feared dead

The Independent

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Up to 150 people are …

India Water Power Uttarakhand Projects Project Ganga

4 years ago

2020, year of the pandemic: Denied land allotted to her, a differently-abled woman from Sivaganga ostracised

Firstpost

For Rajalakshmi, a woman with a locomotor disability, being forced to leave her rented house in the middle of the lockdown was only the latest chapter in a long story of stigmatisation Editor’s note: In 2020, the COVID-19 outbreak upended lives and livelihoods of people in Tamil Nadu in myriad ways. As they struggled to find accessible accommodation, and moved …

Family Disability Opposition Land Told Village Person

4 years, 2 months ago

In Indian cities, the quest for dignity

Hindustan Times

Cities in India are characterised by institutionalised inequalities. However, a slum need not remain a slum forever Geeta Devi used to live and work as construction worker at Yamuna Pushta in Delhi. We detail a long-drawn-out process, involving a chain of actors, from individual households to a non-governmental organisation — Mahila Housing Trust — to officials and elected representatives of …

India Water City Cag Slum Geeta Devi Babuben

4 years, 5 months ago

‘Barred from entering’: Dharavi domestic workers recount the social impact of the COVID 19 pandemic

Firstpost

Domestic workers from Dharavi still face social stigma as many housing societies bar entry for them. Mumbai: Though the Dharavi Model gained much traction in early July, for the domestic workers and other informal workers of Dharavi, nothing much has changed in terms of the social stigma they were subjected to ever since the coronavirus entered the slum-area. We also …

Workers Domestic Domestic Workers Worker Dharavi

5 years, 1 month ago

Sardar Sarovar project-affected continue sit-in on day four

The Hindu

Kusum Adivasi, an agricultural labourer, has found herself at the same protest as her former employer, Sashikala Patidar. Our common injustice, that has united us,” says Ms. Adivasi, flapping a drenched sari she’s just washed, before flinging it wide across the median on the Jail Road here to dry. While Ms. Patidar lost two acres of fields, a pucca house …

Work Patidar Nisarpur

5 years, 8 months ago

2 Lucknowites doing their bit to help Odisha rebuild

Hindustan Times

Cyclone Fani left Odisha devastated particularly the holy town of Puri and Bhubaneswar. A 2011 batch IAS, Smarth Verma, who is a commissioner at Bhubaneswar municipal corporation and vice chairman of Bhubaneswar development authority, said, “It is good to see that people from across India are working unitedly to help Odisha limp back to normalcy.” Samarth said, “As an official …

Odisha Work Bhubaneswar Taruka Srivastava Verma Ias

5 years, 9 months ago

Travels through the Hindi belt: For farm workers in Bihar's Darbhanga, seasonal migration to Punjab only hope of livelihood

Firstpost

Thousands of villagers from Bihar’s Darbhanga district migrate around March-end to work as labourers in Punjab’s wheat fields, where they toil away for over a month. “We make around Rs 8,000-10,000 a month,” says Ramchandra Sahni, 40, a resident of Pokhram village, in Biraul tehsil – about 50 kilometres from Darbhanga town. Work opportunities here are rare.” According to the …

India Bihar Labour Work Punjab Rate District

5 years, 10 months ago

Travels through the Hindi belt: As MGNREGA projects dry up, Chhattisgarh labourers migrating south face squalor

Firstpost

Local journalist Nizam Ali, who blew the whistle on a 120-crore MGNREGA scam in Bastar in 2013-2014, said migration should not come as a surprise, considering fewer projects are on the anvil each year. One of the major objectives of MGNREGA was “enhancing livelihood security in rural areas by providing at least 100 days of guaranteed wage employment in a …

Migration States Work Workers Projects Southern States Singh

6 years, 2 months ago

After unveiling of Statue of Unity in Narendra Modi's home state, tribals seek better employment opportunities

Firstpost

While the inauguration of the world’s tallest statue in Sadhu Bet might boost tourism in Gujarat, many tribals are uncertain about their future for various reasons. While the inauguration of the world’s tallest statue in Sadhu Bet might boost tourism in the state, tribals like Kamlesh are uncertain about their future for various reasons. Currently, I get only Rs 300 …

Job Unity Land Projects Project Area Village

6 years, 3 months ago

92-year-old social worker among 11 felicitated in Mangaluru

The Hindu

M. Sunanda, 92, from Kadri, who is working for care of orphans and women, was among the 11 senior citizens felicitated on International Day of Older Persons at the zilla panchayat premises on Monday. Ms. Sunanda was felicitated with 75-year-old K. Narayana Nayak from Bantwal, a retired teacher, who used his pension to give scholarship to poor students, and 81-year-old …

Senior Citizens Mangaluru 11 Felicitated

6 years, 4 months ago

Kerala government to relocate affected people

Deccan Chronicle

Kottayam: The state government has decided to relocate those who became homeless or whose houses were damaged in Idukki district to safer places. The government would provide them land to construct houses and contributions will be taken from the public, Revenue Minister E. Chandrasekharan said on Monday. Addressing a review meeting of people's representatives and officials held at the Idukki …

INTERVIEW | ‘People displaced decades ago face problems even now’

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