Many families who are still landless cannot even buy land because of the state’s policy Article written by Himshi Singh & Prakash Bhandari published on 26/09/23 in Down To Earth Developed with World Bank funding, NH 907A from Shimla, the capital of Himachal Pradesh, to Paonta Sahib is wide and smooth, unlike any typical mountain […]
In December 2006, the Scheduled tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act was tabled and passed in the Parliament of India. 15 years have passed since this historical event, whereby rights of communities dependent on land classified as ‘forest land’ were to be recognised after decades of being labelled as ‘encroachers’ […]
This is a fact-finding report on a case of Dalit atrocity in Chandni Village of Sirmaur, where a middle aged Dalit couple, Jagiya Ram and Santosh, was assaulted brutally on 16th September 2020 by a group of general caste men who were forcefully erecting a fence a piece of land that they (the Scheduled Caste […]