Land

It details the legislative and administrative measures that have led to forced eviction of tribal communities from their ancestral lands to create tiger reserves. …

Forced Evictions in India: 2022 & 2023, Housing and Land Rights Network, New Delhi, 2024, https://www.hlrn … 853 million in addition to requirement of massive land for resettlement which are not simply available … 44. Forced Evictions in India: 2021, Housing and Land Rights Network, New Delhi, 2022, https://www.hlrn … Forced Evictions in India: 2022 & 2023, Housing and Land Rights Network, New Delhi, 2024, https://www.hlrn … informed by forest officials that their forest and land rights under the FRA 2006 did not apply within the …

A poet writes about the farmers across central India dealing with extreme weather conditions as strong heat wave sweeps through the northern part of the country this year

With the decline in the number of shepherds and pasture lands, this craft has few takers these days …

The National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) has conducted Household Consumption Expenditure surveys (HCES) regularly since its inception in 1950. Data on household consumption was collected annually from 1950–51 to 1973-74. …

expenditure on purchase and construction of residential land and building, interest payments, insurance premium … three groups depending on a criterion based on (i) land possessed in rural areas and (ii) possession of …

In this village in the island of Majuli, frequent floods over many decades have led to a loss of livelihoods around agriculture while other traditional occupations, such as boat-making, have …

To counter it, farmers in Tiruvanamalai are reviving traditional varieties of rice and promoting crops better suited to their rainfed lands …

farmers in Tiruvanamalai are reviving traditional varieties of rice and promoting crops better suited to their rainfed lands …

Suresh Dhurve tells stories through his paintings…of forests, trees and animals and people, and their crucial dependence on each other. Gond artists like him who live in Bhopal, say they …

IQAir, a Switzerland-based company working on air quality technology, released this report on March 19, 2024. It gives an overview of population weighted air quality data for the year 2023 …

driven by cattle, soybean, and sugarcane production, land speculation, as well as the wood charcoal industry … kilometer region has already experienced severe land degradation. Meanwhile, air pollution from the region’s … impacted another 7,835.91,92 Over 439,000 hectares of land were burned. Other sources of poor air quality include …

marginalised communities – Dalits and Adivasis, the agenda notes, are often denied access to forest land and women farmers remain landless and unpaid in many cases. The agenda adds that the central government …

and their livelihoods; unprecedented increase in land degradation, destruction of agricultural lands and … protection against natural and other calamities; land, water, forest and all natural resources including … implementation, policies on fisheries, rain fed dry land agriculture, climate crisis, biodiversity loss and … to hold special consultations on the subjects of Land Rights for Women Farmers including the women as … credit and finance 4. Analysis of the access to land & water, employment and wages, opportunities for …

The working paper highlights how inequality in India declined in the period after independence until the 1980s, after which it started rising again. The paper compares the wealth and income …

such as nationalization, abolition of privy purses, land redistribution etc. 6 2 Data and methodology As … the value of seven different types of assets- i) land ii) buildings iii) livestock iv) implements, machinery … which were recorded as per book value in 2012 and land values which were recorded as per normative/book … higher than United States (1%). 33 The piecemeal land redistribution that happened in some parts of the … First, physical assets dominate household wealth - land and building jointly make up almost 90% of the total …