According to A CITIZENS REPORT CARD ON SPECIAL ECONOMIC ZONES prepared by civil society organization, South Asia Citizens’ web: http://www.sacw.net/IMG/pdf/CITIZENSREPORTONSEZs.pdf THE NUMBERS ISSUES OF CONCERN Landless and Agricultural labourers displaced without compensation- Destruction of Agro-based and rural economies- Creation of exploitative employment opportunities and working conditions resulting from nullification of labour protection laws – ECONOMIC…
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FOR MORE PLEASE CLICK THE LINKS LISTED BELOW Paper presented at the National Seminar on ‘Special Economic Zones: Engines of Growth and Social Development for India: Present Problems and Future Prospects’ (16 – 17 October ’08 at Hyderabad) organised by the Department of Sociology, Osmania University.http://www.sacw.net/article574.html SEZ Act-2005http://www.cnisbss.org/Newsline/PDF/SEZ/SEZ%20Act,%202005.pdf Fact Sheet on Special Economic Zones by…
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Opposition to Big Dams: Lessons for Policy * Even before Independence, there were instances of anti-dam struggles such as the one led by Senapati Bapat in opposition to the Mulshi hydroelectric project in the Western Ghats. * The first large river valley project in India, Hirakud, resulted in widespread protests in 1946 after…
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The paper by Jaideep Hardikar, published in ‘Infochange’ titled The destruction of ‘development’, http://infochangeindia.org/index2.php?option=com_content&do_pdf=1&id=6161, does not go into depths and details, but it gives a bird’s views of the problem. Main Points: * Since independence at least 50 million people in India have been displaced by dams, mines, thermal power plants, corridor projects, field firing ranges,…
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magining a Post-Development Era? Critical thought, Development and Social Movements by Arturo Escobar is a paper, which gives a fair idea of debates on developments till 1960s and afterwards. This is an important reading for a deeper understanding of evolution of concepts of developments in last few decades. As there is a cause and effect…
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KEY TRENDS @@ Status Report on Implementation of the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006 [for the period ending 31st October, 2017], prepared by the Ministry of Tribal Affairs, please click here to access @$ Citizen’s report entitled Promise and Performance: Ten years of the Forest Rights Act…
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Status of the implementation of Panchayat (Extension to the Scheduled Areas) Act, 1996 (PESA Act), as on 6th June, 2018 Table 1: Details of notified Fifth Schedule Areas (FSA)/ Panchayat Extension to the Scheduled Areas (PESA) in 10 states Table 1 Details of notified FSA PESA areas in 10 states of India Source: Website on…
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Please click here to access the Draft National Forest Policy 2018. According to the Status Report on Implementation of the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006 [for the period ending 31st October, 2017], which has been prepared by the Ministry of Tribal Affairs (please click here to access):…
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According to the Citizen’s report entitled Promise and Performance: Ten years of the Forest Rights Act in India (released in December 2016), which has been brought out by the Community Forest Rights-Learning and Advocacy (CFR-LA) process (http://www.cfrla.org.in/) and supported by OXFAM–India and Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI), please click here to access:
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