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What is The #Coal Bearing Areas (Acquisition and Development) Amendment Bill, 2021 proposed in the #ParliamentMonsoonSession ? #CBA2021
#coal #mining #FossilFuels #land #lawforall
@iep_india @CBA_Raipur @JharkhandJanad1 @AdivasisMatter @ForestRightsAct
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What is The #Coal Bearing Areas (Acquisition and Development) Amendment Bill, 2021 proposed in the #ParliamentMonsoonSession ? #CBA2021
#coal #mining #FossilFuels #land #lawforall
@iep_india @CBA_Raipur @JharkhandJanad1 @AdivasisMatter @ForestRightsAct
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#CBA2021 amends #Coal Bearing Areas Act, 1957 which currently allows #CentralGovernment to acquire #land only for Govt Companies i.e #CoalIndiaLimited & only for #mining purposes.
#Land was not be used for permanent infrastructure e.g.roads, rail
coal.nic.in/major-statisti… 2/10
#Land was not be used for permanent infrastructure e.g.roads, rail
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The #CBA2021 will allow central government to do three things:
1. Give rights to #State Govts to lease #land to successful bidders of 2020 #CoalAuctions.
Private sector is incentivised and spared of #landacqusition #compensation
1. Give rights to #State Govts to lease #land to successful bidders of 2020 #CoalAuctions.
Private sector is incentivised and spared of #landacqusition #compensation
1/ #Vaccination #Adivasi #COVID thread; day begins with an orientation meeting to #Solega #Adivasi leadership on #vaccination at a hamlet; we address doubts and misconceptions; leaders criticise the stereotype of #Tribal Community as being hesitant and "running away";
2/ ask that officials & NGOs engage meaningfully and respectfully with their leadership at multiple levels; refuse the idea that they are ALL hesitant which often prevails among "others"; they explain what is the best way of engaging #Adivasi communities
3/ They offer to identify #COVID volunteers in each podu (hamlet); volunteers can be oriented in small groups & shall help with obtaining proper consent and participation of their elders;
Govt of India used the #Covid lockdown to pass policy decisions for forest diversion, diluting the #ForestRightsAct- 25% of the projects in Schedule 5 areas.
In Part 1 of a 2 part series @AditiPinto brings voices from those affected by hydro projects.
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In Part 1 of a 2 part series @AditiPinto brings voices from those affected by hydro projects.
behanbox.com/how-the-govern…
Analysis of Expert Appraisal Committee reveals that approx. 120 projects were recommended, 90 were deferred, 30 projects returned and only 2 projects were rejected. This has huge implications on #Adivasi and Forest dwelling communities.
Read how Forest+ EAC within @moefcc went on a project clearing spree for large scale industrial, mining, hydropower, road projects with an absolute disregard to #environment laws. #Adivasi #ForestRights #COVID19
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#Lockdown has had a gendered impact. It has particularly affected #Adivasi and #ForestDweller women with no access to markets & harassment by forest department @ForestRightsAct bring to you #voices of Adivasi women from the ground. #VoicesThatMatter #ForestRights
In Part 2 of the series of #Adivasi & #Forestdwelling #women @ForestRightsAct bring a compilation of powerful stories from across India highlighting issues these #women faced during the #covid19 #pandemic.behanbox.com/adivasi-and-fo… 
What has been the impact of #lockdown #Covid19 on Adivasi women across India. Here we bring you stories of Adivasi and forest dwelling women from Uttararkhand, Odisha, Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat. #AdivasiWomen #ForestRights
Triloki Devi, a PTVG woman from Uttarakhand narrates how the forest department made their life hell during the #Covid19 #Lockdown. Forest dwelling women have been affected by #lockdown in very specific ways. Read these stories. behanbox.com/adivasi-and-fo…
@Dev_Fadnavis government has blamed state’s own bureaucracy for unlawfully rejecting #ForestRights claims of tens of thousands of #Adivasis & other traditional forest dwellers, putting some of India’s most marginalised citizens at risk of forcible eviction
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from their lands and homesteads.
In two separate affidavits filed before the Supreme Court, the @BJP4India government blamed the District Level Committees, staffed by officers of the departments of Revenue, @moefcc and @TribalAffairsIn of the state administration
In two separate affidavits filed before the Supreme Court, the @BJP4India government blamed the District Level Committees, staffed by officers of the departments of Revenue, @moefcc and @TribalAffairsIn of the state administration
and three nominated members from Panchayati Raj Institutions—for rejecting at least 22,509 #forestrights claims across Maharashtra without appropriately assessing the evidence submitted to support these claims, or for rejecting these claims by giving irrelevant reasons.
#TRIBECON begins #Pravara; felicitations to #AbhayBang @SearchGad & #sudarshan #VGKK for their inspiring work on #TribalHealth; @DrLahariya @whoindia among others felicitated
#abhayBang #healthsystem design for tribal communities need to be relooked for #UHC; strategies & schemes must adapt with local social & cultural context; recollects #Brainstorming with @DesirajuKeshav at @SearchGad leading to #ExpertCommittee #tribalhealth @TribalHealthIND
#TRIBECON #AbhayBang notes with happiness increasing interest in #tribalhealth research, yet this continues to be “off the beaten path”; congratulations to #pravara medical college in bringing this together; the proposed #Bandardhara declaration to improve #tribalhealth research
