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Ministry U-turn: No relocation without consent | Feb 14, 2011
Four days after the environment ministry’s bid to undercut the Forest Rights Act, minister Jairam
Ramesh has intervened and said no forest dwellers will be relocated without “consent of gram sabhas
and the affected persons”… Read more
‘India’s mineral wealth obtained by violating tribal rights’ | Feb 7, 2011
The ministries of environment and coal may still be bickering about ‘go’ and ‘no- go’ areas for mining ,
but an International Labour Organisation report claims that more than half the country’s mineral
wealth is obtained by violating the rights of tribals… Read more
In the News : 2011