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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Annul diversion of green patch near “Amazon of Assam” for coal mining project It was allowed without environment impact analysis and jeopardise rights of indigenous populations, say NGOs A dozen rights, social and community-based organisations wrote on Saturday to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking him to revoke the proposed diversion of a green region
Tribal welfare: GI tag can help ST entrepreneurs thrive At this critical juncture of India’s development journey, where inclusive economic growth has emerged as a new exemplar of development, the empowerment of scheduled tribes (ST), which are largely economically and socially backward, has assumed special significance. And what better way than to help
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Ensure patta and effective implementation of Forest Rights Act for tribal people: Study A study in the hill areas of Kadambur and Bargur revealed that creation of jobs locally, distribution of patta for their holdings and effective implementation of the Forest Rights Act (FRA), 2006, will prevent migration of tribal people to other
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