5 जून को विश्व पर्यावरण दिवस के उपलक्ष में शिमला प्रेस क्लब और हिमधरा प्रयावार्ण समूह ने मिल कर राजधानी में आधे दिन की मीडिया वर्कशॉप का आयोजन किया. वर्कशॉप में हिमालयी क्षेत्रों में पर्यावरणीय संकट पर गहराई में चर्चा हुयी जिसमें हिमधरा समूह की मांशी आशर और सुमित महर के साथ वरिष्ठ पत्रकार पी […]
Photos : Sumit Mahar Text: Vaishnavi Rathore, with inputs from Manshi Asher The Himalayan region is highly sensitive towards changes in global climate, a fact that was reiterated by a recent study which suggests that more than half of glaciers in Satluj Basin would vanish by 2050. Above, is Satluj which before merging with Spiti […]
हिंदी के लिए नीचे स्क्रोल करें Lack of safety compliance in Hydro Projects invitation to disasters: Community representatives, activists to authorities This Lok Sabha elections both major national parties, the BJP and Congress in their manifestos speak of “Protecting the Himalayas”. However both parties and their candidates remain silent on a grave issue of concern […]
भारत के 17वे लोक सभा चुनाव के माहौल में, क्षेत्रफल के हिसाब से हिमाचल के सबसे बड़े संसदीय निर्वाचन क्षेत्र मंडी जिसमे लाहौल-स्पीती, किन्नौर, भरमौर और कुल्लू ज़िले शामिल हैं में वन अधिकार कानून का मुद्दा जोर पकड़ रहा है. मंडी शहर के सेरी मंच पर हिमाचल वन अधिकार मंच द्वारा आयोजित एक दिवसीय धरना […]
EVEN as the Supreme Court has stayed its order directing state governments to evict occupants from forestland whose claims for land titles under the Forest Rights Act (FRA) have been rejected, about 20 lakh tribal and other forest-dependent families across the country continue to be on tenterhooks. The order was passed on a petition filed […]
Film Ho Gyi Hai Pir Parvat Si (The Mountains Agonized) is directed by Subrat Kumar Sahu. He is known for making films that reflect our social structures and has often been sceptical about the “way of development” through his craft. Ho Gayi Hai Pir Parvat Si – Hindi (The Mountains Agonized) is his 8th documentary […]
28-01-19 To, Shri Jual Oram Minister of Tribal Affairs Government of India New Delhi Subject: With regard to the impediments and hurdles in the implementation […]
Local leaders and activists call out the ignorance and apathy of administration, question apathy of the government Close to 1500 tribal people assembled and carried out a rally at Kinnaur’s district headquarter of Reckong Peo on the 29th of December to register their protest against the district administration for not implementing the Forest Rights Act […]
हिन्दी के लिये नीचे स्क्रोल करें Press Note: 21Decmber 2018 Official members of District level Committee under FRA reject claims of tribals of Lippa Village Doling out forest land to company but cannot grant tribals their rights, shows government priorities, Empty promise on FRA made in Vidhan Sabha: Lippa Forest Rights Committee Barely few […]
9 Dec 2018 The premiere screening of “The mountains agonized” (Ho gayi hai pir parbat si – Hindi), a documentary film on the impacts of hydropower development in the Satluj Valley made by Independent Filmmaker Subrat Kumar Sahu was held at Sambhaavnaa Institute in Palampur on the 8th of December at a film festival called […]