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People's march planned to demand land rights
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Thursday, August 12, 2010 |
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25,000 people marched across India for a month protesting against displacement in India, which happened when corporations and industry moved in.80% of the displaced people get no rehabilitation support as they don't have land titles, mostly because they didn't know that it was important to have propery titles.An initial group will march for a whole year, starting in October 2011, with the final month seeing numbers swell to 100,000 before they reach Delhi, reports The Independent.
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MP: Forest Rights Act losing steam, officials show the rules
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Friday, August 06, 2010 |
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The Forest department interprets the Scheduled Tribes and other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act in Madhya Pradesh in a strange way. This leads to a lot many problems in its implementation. The department opposes the act which gives rights to Adivasis living on forest lands, and many petitions were filed against it, reports The Hindu.
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Change the land use permission, reap instant profit
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Thursday, July 22, 2010 |
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Avinash Bhosale, a Pune based builder who is politically well connected, made 275 crores from a Cidco plot, leaving Cidco with a change of user fee of 1.25 crores. He did it by on-selling the land by not adding any additional value to it. The highest bidder was Metropolis Hotels at 282 crores.GS Gill, who was in charge when the deal happened, defended himself by stating that Cidco had the power to do so, writes Nauzer K Bharucha in The Times of India. |
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19,400 slum-dwellers to get property papers
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Sunday, May 30, 2010 |
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19,400 families in slums in Karnataka will get possession certificates and sale deeds. A loan of Rupees One lakh will be provided to slum dwellers at the interest rate of three percentage. The Government wants to build 3.5 lakh houses for foor families in 2010, reports The Hindu. |
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Pull the Land Issue Out From Under the Maoists
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Wednesday, April 21, 2010 |
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There has been a lot of discussion about the growth of the Maoist insurgency in tribal dominated forest areas. While the security issues have dominated the debate, there has not been adequate attention on winning the hearts and minds of the local population by recognising their property rights in land. Barun Mitra discusses this in his article titled, "Pull the Land Issue Out From Under the Maoists" published in the Wall Street Journal. |
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Posco chief allays fears on project
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Wednesday, August 26, 2009 |
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Posco Chief Dong Hee Lee assured chief minister of Orissa, Naveen Patnaik that his company was committed to completing the steel project in Orissa. |
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Jharkhand: Land survey for slum in Jamshedpur
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Thursday, July 30, 2009 |
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Jharkhand has sought to survey the report from East Singhbhum administration so as to provide land ownership rights to slum dwellers. The Telegraph covers this story. |
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In India, Old Land Records Go Digital
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Friday, July 17, 2009 |
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India has undertaken the mammoth task of digitizing land records in a bid to ensure transparency and secure conclusive land titles. Rama Laxmi reports in the Washington Post about this amibitious and much awaited project. |
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