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Adani Enterprises Ltd, tasked with developing coal mines in Chhattisgarh’s Hasdeo Arand forest, is swallowing up land, trees and villagers’ rights in collusion with the State government, violating the Panchayats (Extension to Scheduled Areas) Act (PESA), 1996 and the Fifth Schedule of the Indian Constitution.
More than 24,000 ‘instructors’—teachers on contract—are paid Rs 7,000 per month to teach classes one to eight in Uttar Pradesh, making up 4% of government school teachers. Many now moonlight as salesmen, tailors, rickshaw drivers and workers in a state with India’s fifth lowest literacy rate.
Formed with the backing of employees dismissed in 2012, the Maruti Suzuki Non-permanent Workers Sangh will seek job security and better pay.
By the end of the 1990s, both capital and a willing state had eviscerated the labour movement. The death blow will be dealt in the 2020s.
The 15th of June marked the beginning of an indefinite fast by Medha Patkar, for justice in the Narmada valley. The demands from this fast include rehabilitation of all the remaining project affected as per the laws, policies, and Supreme Court orders.
The last two decades have seen little increase in welfare spending. But the NDA government has created an image of being focused on welfare by renaming schemes, appropriating older ones, and starving some UPA schemes of funds.
Maharashtra’s fishing community is angry with the BJP for prioritising development at the cost of destruction of the Konkan coast.
Who gets how much is a result of the system, education, opportunities, and so on. Many of the rich people have become rich through cronyism, cutting corners, and bending rules.
‘Dharmic SEZ and “Hindu Renaissance”: Ram Rajya for the Rich’; ‘Temple Construction Meant Small Business Owners in Ayodhya Lost Money – and Hope’; ‘Survival at Stake: Meat, Liquor Ban Hits Livelihoods of Thousands in Ayodhya’; ‘Ayodhya: All Eyes Skyward at Grand Temple; Shopkeepers Left With Rubble Below’; ‘When Death Came Knocking on a Family in Ayodhya’.
The amended Act weakens accountability for large corporations exploiting biodiversity resources, enabling them to deny fair compensation to tribal and local communities.
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