The opposition Congress slammed the BJP-led government for the eviction drive and said many of the affected families are entitled to have land rights according to the Forest Rights Act, 2006.
Ongoing evictions and demolition drives in J&K are a 'gross violation' of human rights, says Amnesty International, asking UK’s construction giant JCB to step in.
'The government shifts for development where the brahmins, upper caste, and upper class settle. And in turn, these development projects shift the Adivasis, Dalits, Muslims and poor away from the vicinity of the development.'
The aggrieved family members of the women allegedly beat up Lekhpal (revenue officer) Ashok Singh, following which the anti-encroachment team members fled the spot.
Named after one of the most iconic figures of Dalit empowerment in Maharashtra, the residents of the slum on Mumbai’s creek live perpetually under the brutal and rapacious claws of BMC authorities and their bulldozers.
The Bhakra dam, hailed as one of ‘temples of modern India’, wreaked unspoken havoc on the lives of villagers across districts of Himachal Pradesh who had to leave homes and fertile land that was submerged, leading to...
Major political parties such as the Congress, the National Conference, and the PDP have voiced their concerns against the drive and demanded an immediate end to it.
Residents of the area dubbed as the Yamuna floodplains have repeatedly been subjected to forced evictions. Many are now disillusioned with politicians and have now lost hope of ever having a permanent home.
At least 280 slum cluster demolitions have taken place in the capital between 1990 and 2020. Following Covid-19 pandemic, the problem of forced evictions and...
Residents of the neighbourhoods in south east Delhi have been repeatedly evicted by the authorities in the name of environmental preservation. Many now live in...
A woman writes about life on the streets in Mumbai
On December 20, 2022, Uttarakhand High Court ordered the eviction of about 50,000 people in the Muslim-dominated Banbhoolpura neighbourhood in Haldwani after...
Economic development that threatens the lives and livelihoods of indigenous people cannot be the only model available to us
Decades after the Narmada Bachao Andolan began, the struggle over evictions still continues
While it remains to be seen whether the government will budge under pressure in the case of the taking over of ‘grazing land’ and ‘state land’, the...
Eviction and harassment of minority community, who are Muslims of Bengali origin, in Assam continues unabated and unchallenged as the ruling BJP compares its...
Named after one the most iconic figures of Dalit empowerment in Maharashtra, the residents of the slum on Mumbai’s creek live perpetually under the brutal...
Anti-displacement movements, while often impeding governments’ development plans, have rarely impacted the electoral fortunes of the political parties in...
While authorities in Delhi destroy homes of the poor in the name of development and beautification, rights activists claim that in most cases, urban slum...
The fact that they had been living there for decades does not matter to authorities when they bulldoze the homes of hundreds of Adivasis and Dalits, rendering...
In the transit town of Haldwani, about 50,000 people are currently embroiled in a legal tussle with the North Eastern Railways and the state government for...
When it comes to protecting the rights of the poor, the higher judiciary is more punitive than protective
The Himanta Biswa Sarma government has been carrying out evictions in different parts of the state since it assumed power in May 2021. The drive in Nagaon's...
As the administration completes its preparations for an eviction drive to clear 500 hectares of forest land in Assam’s Lakhimpur district, many of the...
A mock drill by security forces for the drive was conducted on Sunday, they said. Out of 2,560.25 hectares of Pava reserved forest, only 29 hectares are...
