Bhil Tribe and their demand for separate State. Bhils or Bheels are an Indo-Aryan speaking ethnic group in West India. They speak the Bhil languages, a subgroup of the Western Zone of the Indo-Aryan languages. As of 2013, Bhils were the largest tribal group in India. Bhils are listed as indigenous people of the states
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Maharashtra: Tribal Farmers Form A Company To Harvest & Sell Medicinal Herbs Today we came across an interesting bit of positive news from Pune, Maharashtra; wherein more than 800 tribal farmers have incorporated a company to harvest and sell over 120 exclusive medicinal herb products. Vanarinath Aushadhi Vanaspati Adivasi Farmers Producer Company Limited is the
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Chhattisgarh Govt Launches Schemes For Tendu Leaves, Cow Dung Collectors The scheme, named after slain Congress leader Mahendra Karma, was inaugurated on the occasion of his birth anniversary from the official residence of CM Bhupesh Baghel in Raipur. Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel buys cow-dung to mark the inauguration of ‘Godhan Nyay Yojna’. Under the
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Tribal Community Conservation Strengthens Biodiversity In Similipal Tiger Reserve Protecting natural forests and wildlife has been a way of life for indigenous communities inside Similipal Biosphere in Odisha. Their efforts have been recognised a few years ago under the Forest Rights Act and the legal recognition has encouraged tribals, enriched biodiversity inside the sanctuary, recharged
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TRIFED joins hands with The LINK Fund for tribal development Recently, the TRIFED and The LINK Fund have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for tribal development. Key Highlights The MoU is aimed at employment generation by providing support to tribals for increasing value addition in their produce and It has called for sustainable
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Odisha’s Bonda tribe sees rise in ‘distress migration’ While the youth have abandoned villages for work in distant towns, children have dropped out of schools after pandemic Perched at a height of 3,500ft above sea level in the hilly Malkangiri district of Odisha, this village is difficult to access and so are its inhabitants —
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In Ganjam village, a frog dance to woo the rain gods Frustrated over lack of adequate rain, inhabitants of Masiakhali village in Odisha’s Ganjam district on Thursday resorted to the traditional ritual of ‘bengei nacha’ or frog dance to appease the rain gods. Despite the onset of the monsoon, several areas in Ganjam district have
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Any exploitation of Sentinel Island will wipe out tribals In a recent policy document, the Anthropological Survey of India (AnSI) has mentioned that any commercial exploitation of the North Sentinel Island of the Andamans will endanger the survival of the Sentinelese tribes. Who are Sentinelese? They are the occupants of the Northern Sentinel Island and
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Gujarat: For those from tribal districts, long journey to get to oxygen beds Satish Chaudhary’s hopes of getting an oxygen bed, however, were dashed as the state-run NCH and the civic body’s SMIMER hospital had stopped new admissions of from Wednesday citing low oxygen supply. A 35-year-old Covid-19 patient from the tribal-dominated Palwada village of
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Marriage Is Driving Tribal Families Into Debt In MP. These Activists Are Trying To Change That. These activists are working with tribes people of Madhya Pradesh to cap marriage expenditures and prevent families from plunging into debt or having to sell off their lands to pay for their children‟s weddings. In villages across Western Madhya
