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AN ESSENTIAL GUIDE ON THE UTILIZATION OF THE GODAVARI WATERS AND RESOURCES

The RoFR act recognizes the dwelling site, religious places, burial grounds, village council sites along with places of MFP, water resources, biodiverisity etc and also PVT tenures. As the implementation boils down to title deeds for house sites and lands under cultivation, SAKTI engaged the Chenchu youth to document their traditional knowledge in their idiom and dialect, in encouraging them to assert as inborn foresters, capable of managing these resources as envisaged in the Act.

"Since SAKTI activities are mostly issue based and covering a large area, here we concentrate on the forest-related programmes of SAKTI for the present study."

The Tribal Struggle for Property Rights

-Arun Kumar

SAKTI: Review Report by: Mukta Srivastava, Programme Officer, Oxfam GB in India - Hyderabad . DATE : 20-25 November 2002

RECONSTRUCTING A HISTORY OF LAND,

DISPOSSESSION OF ADIVASI LAND IN THE WEST GODAVARI DISTRICT OF A.P.

Bhukya Bhangya

Asst. Professor of History

Nizam College,

Osmania University,

Hyderabad

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Articles

Deccan Chronicle, Oct 27, 1997.
Enkur (Khammam), Oct. 26 :

The Khammam district unit general secretary of the Society for Rural Poor, Mr. P Muttaiah, in a statement, has alleged that landlords and wealthy farmers were disallowing the Girijans to enter the lands in spite of the prevailing Girijan Act which favors the latter in this regard.

Mr Mutthaiah said about 500 poor Girijans from 10 villages of Enkur mandal had been cultivating in nearly 2000 acres of forest lam where trees had vanished. They removed shrubs and bushes and made use of the land for cultivation and the process was being practiced for the past 17 years. He said cultivation was being done in 80 acres of land at Raghavapuram and Lachchugudem villages of Enkur mandal under the supervision of Society for Rural Poor.

Demanding sanction of pucca houses for the poor Girijans through the ITDC, Mr. Mutthaiah lamented that his sincere efforts for the past five years in achieving various facilities for the poor had failed to fructify. He had met the district Collector several times and given many petitions to the nodal officers during the Prajala Vaddaku Palana programme in vain.

Though the government released funds worth crores of rupees for the welfare of the poor, the genuine candidates were always deprived of the benefits, he regretted. (Newsflash).

W.P. No. 5515/87 M.P.No.7398/87 Date:May 1987

W.P. No. 6175/87 M.P.No.8273/87 Date:May 1987

"Managing Director Godavari plywoods ltd. Rampachodavaram E.G.Dt. be and hereby is directed not to cut any mango trees, jamun and jack trees and cutting the forests of Maredumilli mandal, E.G.Dt."

Only matured or dying trees were to be felled. Jeelugu (Caryota urens) palm, trees yielding minor forest produce like tamarind or cane brakes, creepers were not to be touched. A gap of 20 meters from a stream.) --Times of India, April 30, 1991.

The candidate has chosen a topical subject, very relevant to our thinking on culture, cognition and language. He has red widely and is familiar with the literature that matters. His linguistic and anthropological reasoning is sound. His language is clear and simple.

...evidence of the investigator's ability as a linguist by special training and as a linguistic anthropologist by self - cultivated interest.

Prof. A.Munirathnam Reddy, Head, Department of Social Anthropology,S.V.University, Tirupati - 517502

Enabling the Community to Gain Command Over the Administrative Process is Empowerment.

"Today the development is manaement without governance and governanace is without proper participation."

A.P.Cabinet Sub - Committee Report on Left Wing Extrremists. - P.Sivaramakrishna.

The only information the government or media always compile carefully is on Naxalite encounters, never the violations of the instruments of rule of law such as minimum wages, fifth schedule, mismanagement of forests, equity in the distribution of welfare benefits, displacement, fragmentation of Socio-economic entities etc.

INDIRA SAGAR (POLAVARAM) CENTRAL EMPOWERED COMMITTEE ORDER

if the R & R is found to be lagging with reference to the fixed bench marks, the construction should accordingly be deferred / stopped;

FORESTS ARE RESERVOIRS OF WATER AND LUNGS OF OUR ENVIRONMENTS.

SAVE THEM FROM MINING AND DESTRUCTION.

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