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To Shri Anil Kumar Jain Union Coal Secretary Dear Shri Jain, I find from your Ministry’s portal that the enclosed list of coal blocks are being put to auction shortly. Most of these coal blocks are located in States such as Jharkhand, MP, Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, Odisha, AP and Telangana and many among the blocks are […]
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Auction of 88 coal blocks requires prior discussion and consent by the Adivasi Gram Sabhas under PESA And FRA
December 17th, 2021 
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No Comments »In rural Rajasthan, Dalit and Adivasi girls fight child marriages
July 31st, 2021 Awake Goy Jaipur: Last year, as the Covid-19 pandemic raged across the world, 20-year-old Vineeta Meena’s dream of becoming a police officer seemed all but lost. Meena, a resident of Gokalpur village in Sapotra Block of Karauli district in Rajasthan was suddenly at home trying to thwart the repeated attempts of her parents to marry her off. […]
Dalit-Adivasi in Uttar Pradesh and the question of land
July 1st, 2021 Awake Goy According to the 2011 census, the total Scheduled Caste (Dalit) population in Uttar Pradesh is 4.13 crore, which is about 21% of the total population of Uttar Pradesh. According to the same census, there are 61.91 lakh families of Dalits in Uttar Pradesh, which is 23% of the total families of Uttar Pradesh. Similarly, the […]
Village chiefs endorse vaccines in Dumka’s Adivasi belt
June 30th, 2021 Awake Goy The district administration roped in village chiefs, self-help women’s groups, doctors and other local influencers to alleviate fear, misconceptions in Masalia Block. Goasal Gram Pradhan Dwarika Prasad Manjhi has been credited for helping the village achieve high vaccination rates (Picture courtesy Rahul Singh) Dumka: Rubaya Kisku (60), a senior citizen from the Santhal Adivasi […]
Listen to Adivasi voices and empower them to counter insurgency
April 5th, 2021 Awake Goy The brutal Naxal attack on the security forces in Chhattishgarh is a reminder of how they have amassed huge weapons to ‘protect’ their zones. It is a complete intelligence failure on part of both the Central and state government who allowed this massive operation. This was the same region where even earlier the Maoists had […]
Politics of the Plate: An account of Adivasi Culinary Aesthetic in Rural Southwest Bengal
January 19th, 2021 Awake Goy My encounter with tribal cuisine has been rather fresh. Till very recently, not only was I unaware of the enviable variety of the tribal palate, its nutritional value and ecological ethos too were beyond my comprehension. It should be made clear in the offing that my tryst with tribal gastronomy is limited to my area […]
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