Tag: indigenous peoples
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Why the Vedanta verdict is just new wine in an old bottle
NITYANAND JAYARAMAN Activists are a cynical bunch. When a good thing happens, they wonder why. On August 24, Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh issued a well-argued order denying forest clearance to a bauxite mining project by Sterlite Industries, a Vedanta subsidiary.
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“The Government took away all our fields and land, now they ask us to leave our homes”
Report by Dayamani Barla (above), translated by Vidya Jonnalagadda The displaced people of Gurutoli and Paahantoli in Naamkom Block are eking out a living to put together a couple of modest meals a day by toiling as daily casual labor, and selling grass and country liquor. The financial constraints keep them from providing either decent…