It is unreasonable to expect this historically marginalised and exploited community to produce documents and prove their citizenship.A report by the government of India’s National Commission of Denotified, Nomadic and SemiNomadic Tribes of India affirms this: “Although, many of the denotified, nomadic and semi-nomadic tribes are spread among SC/ST/OBC, many are still not classified anywhere […]
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The Centre must note that most armed insurgencies find resolution in a grey zone called ‘compromise’ Despite having huge strategic significance, India’s northeastern frontier has largely remained marginal in the country’s popular imagination as well as mainstream politics. The region has witnessed multiple crises including bloody insurgencies, but still lacks the emotional resonance of the
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Crippling rains, lack of transport facilities and poverty are just a few issues that stop children from attending school regularly. This innovative tribal community is coming up with unique and interesting ways to make their kids reach school on time in spite of all the difficulties. Khushi Mena, a student of Rajkiya Unch Prathmik Vidyalaya,
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KOZHIKODE ‘En Uru’, the first tribal heritage village in the state, which is intended to provide a permanent platform to showcase the diverse tribal traditional knowledge and heritage as well as enhance livelihood options to the tribal communities, was inaugurated at Lakkidi in Wayanad on Wednesday. The buildings constructed for the first phase of the
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TRIFOOD Scheme is a joint initiative of Ministry of Food Processing Industry, Ministry of Tribal Affairs and TRIFED. Under this scheme a tertiary value addition center will be set up in Jagdalpur in Chhattisgarh and Raigad in Maharashtra at a cost of approximately Rs.11 crores. Click here TO DOWNLOAD PDF
The tribal communities in southern Rajasthan have utilised their indigenous agricultural practices to survive during the pandemic and embraced an intelligent food management after this year’s rabi crop harvesting. The pandemic has immensely affected their livelihood and economy. Click here to download
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Health workers in Kerala’s Palakkad district crossed a river on Saturday to reach a tribal colony located a few kilometres inside Attapadi forest division. Click here to download
Jamuni Devi is a goat farmer in Jharkhand’s Latehar district. Of late, her animals had been falling ill frequently, and dying, and she just couldn’t understand why. This adversely affected her already meagre income and veterinary doctors are unwilling to cross the hilly terrain and risk visiting the Maoist-hit villages in these remote tribal hinterlands.
Vexed Tribes Lay Road by Themselves Advocacy to the government repeatedly would have been ignored. The tribes of the hamlet of Jajulabandha in the Visakhapatnam Agency made the decision to construct a 13 km “kutcha” road between their village and the closest all-weather road after becoming frustrated by the governments’ and successive officials’ disregard for
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Why India’s local health traditions need to be formalised Traditional healers need to be brought into the public health systems as they function in a resource-strained ecology A few months ago, Tony, a colleague of mine in Gudalur—a small tribal town in Tamil Nadu’s Nilgiris district complained of mouth ulcers. He whined about black circles,
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