Hasdeo Forest News Today

Environmentalist Alok Shukla, who won the Goldman Prize, said his award was in honour of the Adivasis’ fight for land, water and forest.

Chhattisgarh Elections 2023: Chhattisgarh’s tribal community, recovering from a bruising left wing insurgency, battles a new scourge within. Converts to Christianity and those opposing the conversions cannot get along. Congress’s high paddy MSP bet could get neutralised due to the unhappiness of “neo-converts” over GOP’s indifference to attacks against them and the aligning of “anti-converts” with BJP

A young activist from Manipur is leading the protests in the region. She has been carrying out marches, holding sit-in protests, delivering speeches, and putting out threads on Twitter arguing why coal mining should be stopped in Hasdeo.

The government has deleted a key clause on a gram sabha seeking consent from local populations before diverting forest land.

The Hasdeo forest falls under the Korba, Sujapur and Sarguja districts of Chattisgarh and has a sizeable population of Adivasi residents.

Anoushka Shankar is lending her voice to the Adivasi campaign in India to prevent further coal mining in Hasdeo Forest.

This is not physical tiredness, but a profound sense of defeatedness

Chhattisgarh Bachao Andolan convenor Alok Shukla who complained to NTCA about the incident on April 27, 2022, alleged that on the intervening night of April 26, Adani men guarded by police came to the site and started felling the trees mercilessly.

State governments in India have approved two new coal projects on the land of the Adivasi Indigenous people, defying a determined Adivasi resistance movement.

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