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A monthly Review of clippings on Critical Issues & Concerns for NGOs, Activists
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DISPLACEMENT
August 2008	Development and discontent, MINT, Mumbai, 26 Aug 2008 A WAY OUT FOR SINGUR, Ashok Mitra, The Telegraph, Calcutta, 29 Aug 2008 Ultimately, people matter more than development project, Subodh Varma, The Times of India, Mumbai, 30 Aug 2008 Company law, Sreelatha Menon, The Business Standard, Mumbai, 17 Aug 2008 Will changing land laws ensure peace?, Rema Nagarajan, The Times of India, Mumbai, 31 Aug 2008 Land acquisition law likely in coming session, Saubhadra Chatterji & Nistula Hebbar, The Business Standard, Mumbai, 26 Aug 2008
July 2008	No big projects in tribal areas : GoM , Chetan Chauhan, The Hindustan Times, Mumbai, 08 Jul 2008 Three Decades on, promise unfilfilled, Maitreyee Handique, Mint, Mumbai, 16 jul 2008 MP set to expand rehabilitation package for Sasan villagers, Maitreyee Handique, Mint, Mumbai, 25 jul 2008
June 2008	Flawed by design by Neha Sakhuja, Down to Earth Magazine, 01 Jun 2008 Money, instead of land, for Narmada refugees in MP by Chitrangada Choudhury, The Hindustan Times, New Delhi, 03 Jun 2008 Fast track land acquisition by M J Antony, The Business Standard, Mumbai, 04 June 2008 Land acquisition problems delay major projects by V. Jayanth, The Hindu, Chennai, 23 Jun 2008 After water wars, India will have to brace for land wars by R Vaidyanathan, DNA, Mumbai, 17 Jun 2008
May 2008	PM may receive Amnesty report that flays land acquisition , Aasha Khosa, The Business Standard, Mumbai, 29 May 2008 Rehab law on the anvil, but may bring little solace on the ground, Maitreyee Handique, MINT, Mumbai, 08 May 2008 Centre asks state governments to dig up rehabilitation data, Maitreyee Handique, MINT, Mumbai, 12 May 2008 States accept advance ahead of green signal, Padmaparna Ghosh and Utpal Bhaskar, MINT, Mumbai, 12 May 2008 Dam build-up: ‘Save Bhagirathi’ campaign gathers steam, Shishir Prashant, The Business Standard, Mumbai, 28 May 2008
April 2008	Activists reject land, rehab laws, Civil society Magazine, 01 Apr 2008 Give SEZ oustees share in project, says Moily panel, The Business Standard, Mumbai, 09 Apr 2008 State of Siege, MANSHI ASHER, Tehalka Magazine, 19 Apr 2008 Take-and-give land policy, Sambit Saha, The Telegraph, Calcutta, 16 Apr 2008 Posco to pay more to displaced persons, The Business Standard, Mumbai, 11 Apr 2008 Dare not step in , A K Gupta, Down to Earth Magazine, 15 Apr 2008
March 2008	Narmada Valley rehabilitation work: let right be done , Ramaswamy R. Iyer, The Hindu,Chennai, 14 Mar 2008 Small Bandaids For Big Wounds , Vijayan M J, Tehelka Magazine,08 Mar 2008 The State As Landlord , Prem Shankar Jha, Outlook Magazine, 17 Mar 2008 Pune protests Dow research facility , Nidhi Jamwal, Down to Earth, 31 Mar 2008 SEZ in Jhajjar has farmers in two minds , Rituparna Bhuyan, The Business Standard, Mumbai, 23 Mar 2008 Gorai mangroves threatened , AJIT WAKODE, The Asian Age, Mumbai, 01 Mar 2008 Vedanta's false job promises anger local youth , Maureen Nandini Mitra, Down to Earth Magazine, 15 Mar 2008
February 2008	MPT bundh: Goa comes to a standstill, The Deccan Herald, Bangalore, 12 Feb 2008 Loot in Gandhi’s land, Uday Mahurkar. - India Today Magazine, 04 Feb 2008
January 2008	Land For The Landed?, Tehelka Magazine, 26 Jan 2008 POSCO: Villagers demand, Down to Earth Magazine, 31 Jan 2008 Another Nandigram in making, The Hindustan Times, New Delhi, 23 Jan 2008 Decoding the Niyamgiri verdict, Down to Earth Magazine, 31 Jan 2008 People's war, Sahara Time Magazine, 06 Jan 2008 Remembering Kalinganagar, Down to Earth Magazine, 31 Jan 2008 Special Eruption Zone, Lalita Iyer, The Week Magazine, 06 Jan 2008 Did anyone say inclusive growth?, The Hindustan Times, New Delhi, 25 Jan 2008 Thousands throng Kalinga Nagar on firing anniversary, The Business Standard, Mumbai, 03 Jan 2008
December 2007	Cos kept out of R&R, The Business Standard, Mumbai, 07 Dec 2007 79 per cent land oustees tribals, Sutirtho Patranobis, The Hindustan Times, New Delhi, 20 Dec 2007 Not So Easy, The Telegraph, Calcutta, 11 Dec 2007
November 2007	Resettlement & rehabilitation: New policy, old story, Arnab Pratim Datta, Down to Earth Magazine, 15 Nov 2007 Minefield of problems, N N Sachitanand, The Times Of India, Mumbai, 19 Nov 2007 Tata plant plan splits, Maitreyee Handique, MINT, Mumbai, 03 Nov 2007 Posco shifts housing project to Delhi, Rajaram Satapathy, The Times of India, Mumbai, 23 Nov 2007
October 2007	Crisis looms over Posco project, Jatindra Dash, Sahara Time Magazine, 28 Oct 2007 Posco turns to Gandhian NGO,The Business Standard, Bombay, 16 Oct 2007 Powerless Before A Power Plant, M. Radhika, Tehelka Magazine, 13 Oct 2007 No sanctuary, Alka Dhupkar, Down to Earth Magazine, 31 Oct 2007
September 2007	'People in Orissa will fight against any new mine', Prafulla Samantara, The Business Standard, Bombay, 11 Sep 2007 `No new law can make Jharkhand give land`,Sreelatha Menon, The Business Standard, Bombay, 04 Sep 2007 Land-ing troubles,Sreelatha Menon, The Business Standard, Bombay, 02 Sep 2007 Bitter harvest in valley’sBeerzada Arshad Hamid, The Business Standard, Bombay, 02 Sep 2007 Salwa Judum terror, Sreelatha Menon & R Krishna Das, The Business Standard, Bombay, 02 Sep 2007 Court orders miners,R Venugopalan Nair, Down to Earth Magazine, 30 Sep 2007 Have river, will dam,Shripad Dharmadhikary, Himal Southasian, 01 Sep, 2007
August 2007	Humanitarian crisis in Iraq, Humanitarian crisis in Iraq, John Holmes, The Hindu, Madras, 13 Aug 2007 Sethusamudram project is anti-religious, uneconomical, Dipak Basu, The Deccan Herald, Bangalore, 07 Aug 2007 Fragile paradise, Praveen Swami, Frontline Magazine, 10 Aug 2007 6,000 people to lose land to Sasan, Sapna Dogra Singh Sasan, The Business Standard, Bombay, 27 Aug 2007 Karunanidhi’s Nandigram, P C Vinok Kumar, Tehelka Magazine, 18 Aug 2007 'Don't let new mining policy hurt the tribals', C.Anand Reddy, The Asian Age, Bombay, 06 Aug 2007
July 2007	Sikkim's tribesfolk protest against damming river Teesta, Maureen Nandhini Mitra, DOWN TO EARTH MAGAZINE, 31 JUL 2007 Our Gathering Tide, Malavika Vartak, TEHELKA MAGAZINE, 07 JUL 2007 Chain reaction , E.M.Jose, THE WEEK MAGAZINE, 08 JUL 2007 Large dams power India`s growth story, Sapna Dogra Singh, THE BUSINESS STANDARD, BOMBAY, 25 JUL 2007 No evidence of anti-national activity by NBA, THE BUSINESS STANDARD, BOMBAY, 15 JUL 2007
June 2007	Guaranteed To Protect And Care, The Telegraph, Calcutta, 05 Jun 2007 Share-For-Land Model, Ishita Ayan Dutt & Kaushik Datta, The Business Standard, Bombay, 13 Jun 2007 Tehri Dam Oustees To Be Rehabilitated Again;, Bidisha Kumar, Down To Earth Magazine, 30 Jun 2007 Deep Dent, Aman Sethi, Frontline Magazine, 01 Jun 2007 Growing Crisis, The Deccan Herald, Bangalore, 22 Jun 2007
April 2007	Homeless on their own soil, Srinand Jha, The Hindustan Times, New Delhi, 30 March 2007 There was Once an Old Tehri town..., Harsh Dobhal, Combat Law Magazine, 01 January-March 2007 APPEALLand Acquisition In Bastar, Debarabjan Sarangi, Countercurrents.org, 15 March 2007
January 2007	SEZ acquisition put ‘on hold’ Simi Kamboj, The Telegraph, Calcutta, 06 January 2007 Acres for heartache Medha Patkar, The Hindustan Times, New Delhi, 29 January 2007
January 2007	Submerged hopes Lylabavadah, Frontline Magazine, 27 January - 09 February 2007 From Nehru's vision to the Narmada G S Bhargava, The Deccan Herald, Bangalore, 25 January 2007 Life beyond Narmada Sanjay K Sharma, The Business Standard, Bombay, 05 January 2007
December 2006	SINGUR: WHERE THE LEFT TURNS RIGHT, Vijayan M J, Tehelka Magazine, 30th Dec 2006 Starting trouble, Shrid Sankar Chattopadhyay, Frontline Magazine, 29th December 2006 Singur: just the facts, please, Brinda Karat, The Hindu, Madras, 13th Dec 2006 Face-off at Singur, Rakesh Joshi & Aarti Gupta, Business India Magazine, 31st Dec 2006
July 2006	It’s different, Walter Fernandes, Down to Earth Magazine, 01 July 2006 Don't underestimate woes of oustees, Himanshu Upadhaya & Joe Athialy, The Indian Express, Bombay, 12 July 2006 Long Arm Of The Law, Ramachandra Guha, The Times of India, Bombay, 11 July 2006 Medha Speaks, Arup Kumar Sen, Mainstream Magazinne, 07 July 2006
June 2006	Alternative rehab policy lost in a maze of committees, Nitin Sethi, Down to Earth Magazine, 30 June 2006 'Will Vedanta give Orissa trials equity for land?", Vidya Viswanathan, Civil Society, Magazine, 01 June 2006
March 2006	Bloodbath at Gangavaram, Times News Net Work , 28th March 2006 Rehab package mires Gangavaram port, Newindpress Online, 28th March 2006 Law to tackle land unrest, Jayanta Roy Chowdhury, The Telegraph, Calcutta, 29th March 2006 Rehab panel, Gandhi to govt, Nistula Hebbar, The Business Standard, Bombay, 29th March 2006 Fair Share, The Times of India, Bombay, 30th March 2006 APPEAL, Condemn the police brutal killings & firings on fisher people of Gangavaram Port, Vishakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh. Open Letter to ADB on Safeguard Policy Update, No to Weakened Standards, YES to Accountability
April 2006	Supreme Court empowers Manmohan to resolve Narmada dam dispute, The Hindu, Madras, 18 April 2006 Modi breaks fast, so does Medha amid small victories , The Times of India, Bombay, 18 April 2006 UN rap Centre on height of dam , The Asian Age, Bombay, 15 April 2006 Guarding the guardians, Jayati Ghosh, Frontline Magazine, 21 April 2006 The way ahead is forward, with new thinking, Financial Express, 21 April 2006 The stage for confrontation, NITYA JACOB, The Hindu, Madras, 9 April 2006
January 2006	Slashed genitals in glare, Debabarata Mohanty, The Telegraph, Calcutta, 14th Jan 2006 Auctioning adivasi rights, Sujata Madhok, The Sahara Times, Delhi, 28th Jan 2006 'Justice will be done', The Hindustan Times, Delhi, 15th Jan 2006 Police brutality in Orissa, Suhas Chakma, The Times Of India, Bombay, 17th Jan 2006 Consent cannot be manufactured by guns, Vidhya Das, Infochange Website, 12th jan 2006 People's Version Of Kalinganagar Firing, Independent Media, Countercurrents.org, Jan 2006

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