Since March 16, the displaced persons, led by Oram, were sitting on an indefinite dharna protesting further displacement and demanding the implementation of recommendations made by the National Commission for Scheduled Tribes. According to information received, 22 Adivasi residents of…
A group of environmental NGOs including the Goa Foundation, Common Cause, Mineral Inheritors Rights’ Association and others have written to the Union government seeking to blacklist those involved in ‘illegal mining’ from taking part in auctions and those offences be…
The “Posco Pratirodh Sangram Samiti” movement is legendary. For 12 years, in the Jagatsinghpur district of Odisha (India), they have put up a stiff resistance against the South Korean steel-making giant POSCO. In March 2017, they managed to force POSCO…
Treating mineral sale proceeds as revenue or income hides the real transaction — the sale of inherited wealth Read the original article here
The Odisha state finance ministry was preparing paperwork for accessing the unspent cash balance lying in special purpose funds, such as Odisha Mineral Bearing Area Development Corporation (OMBADC) as well as Compensatory Afforestation Management and Planning Authority (CAMPA) to mitigate…
After the Union Government announced a mission to explore mining the Indian ocean floor for rare earth minerals in this year’s budget, environment conservationists and oceanographers in India are joining global calls for a moratorium on deep sea mining. Read…
देश के सभी राज्यो में डीएमएफ फंड के तहत भुगतान किया जा रहा है. जिसमें ओडिशा 5838.26 करोड़ और झारखंड 3426.69 करोड़ सबसे ऊपर हैं. खनन प्रभावित इलाकों की बेहतरी और लोगों की आजीविका के लिए विभिन्न योजनाओं को सही…
In August 2020, the Ministry invited public comments on proposed mining reforms. In January, the proposal was approved by the Cabinet. Now, in response to an RTI application, the ministry said that of over 12,000 submissions that it received, it…
The proposed ‘reforms’ in the mining sector have drawn extensive criticism from environmental activists and others for being rushed and pushed through to benefit industries. The ‘reforms’ propose doing away with the distinction between captive and non-captive mines, and re-allocating…
An assessment by the Environics trust and the Mineral Inheritors Rights Association shows that not even a single company qualifies the fit and proper person test often used by international agencies as a benchmark for a place in the bidding…
On September 3, a little after noon, a large contingent of police arrived at Barhabans village – about 50 kilometres northwest of the steel township of Rourkela in the Bisra-Birkera taluka of the Sundergarh district in Odisha – along with…
In 2015, the Indian government introduced a mechanism for establishing the District Mineral Foundations (DMF) which were to drive developmental work in the mining-affected areas. Over Rs. 400 billion have been collected in the fund so far but the implementation…