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15 tribals listed for UNESCO World Youth Festival

Monday, 30 January 2006 by Samata

The Hindu | June 30 2006

Visakhapatnam, June 30 (UNI): Fifteen tribal youths from East Godavari and Visakhapatnam districts have been selected to participate in the UNESCO World Youth Festival 2006, scheduled to be held from July 2 to 16 in Stuttgart in Germany.

The festival is organised as part of the on-going World Cup Soccer FIFA Football championship. (more…)

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Review of beach road work sought

Wednesday, 16 November 2005 by Samata

The Hindu | Staff Reporter | Andhra Pradesh | Nov 16, 2005

VISAKHAPATNAM: The Forum for Better Visakha (FBV) has asked the State Government to review its decision to go ahead with the work on beach road widening between Visakhapatnam and Bheemunipatnam.

The forum has stated that it is in favour of conducting a public hearing in the fishermen’s villages all along the beach road and a joint inspection of the proposed area by all the agencies concerned, along with representatives of fishermen’s organisations. (more…)

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Polavaram hearing a tame affair

Tuesday, 11 October 2005 by Samata

The Hindu | Staff Reporter | Andhra Pradesh | Oct 11, 2005

  • lea for transparent policy
  • Rights forum for re-convening of public hearing
  • Hearing only after detailed resettlement plan, says Samata activist

VISAKHAPATNAM: An hour-long public hearing conducted by the Andhra Pradesh Pollution Control Board (APPCB) on Polavaram (Indira Sagar) multi-purpose project on Monday turned into a tame affair with no major objections. “As the benefits are far-reaching, I think none has any objection to make,” District Collector Praveen Prakash declared after winding up the public hearing held at the Collectorate, amid unprecedented police bandobust. (more…)

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Displaced women narrate their sordid tales

Wednesday, 28 September 2005 by Samata

The Hindu | Staff Reporter | Sep 28, 2005

  • Concern over the fate of tribals once they are shifted to non-tribal areas
  • Submergence of over 260 villages feared in East and West Godavari and Khammam districts by Polavaram project
  • Officials accused of behaving rudely with affected people and not giving them proper information



A WORRIED LOT: Saraswati Rao, an activist of the Movement Against Uranium Project in Nalgonda, speaking at a workshop in Visakhapatnam on Tuesday.

VISAKHAPATNAM: P. Jogamma, hailing from Maduvalasa village of Pachipenta mandal in Vizianagaram district, does not know how to narrate injustice done to her and others due to the Peddagedda reservoir project by which they have been displaced.

Waving copies of pattas issued to them, she points out as to how they have been denied possession of land for which they were given the pattas long ago. (more…)

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Land for land to oustees demanded

Friday, 16 September 2005 by Samata

Indian Express | September 16 2005

POLAVARAM: Social activist and director of non-governmental organisation Samata Rebbapragada Ravi has demanded that the Government give land to the Polavaram oustees in lieu of the land lost due to the construction of the project.

He told reporters that giving monetary compensation in lieu of the land would be of no use.

He also strongly opposed shifting of the oustee tribals to the urban areas, as the culture shock would be too much for the forest-dwelling tribals. (more…)

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State comes under fire for `unilateral’ bauxite pact

Monday, 05 September 2005 by Samata

The Hindu | Staff Reporter | Monday, Sep 05, 2005

Mining to adversely impact environment and livelihood of tribals

  • CPI(M) to drum up support in Parliament against MoU with Jindal Group
  • GSI survey reports about 500 to 600 million tonnes bauxite deposits in Easten Ghats
  • Loss of green cover and contamination of groundwater feared



CAUSE FOR CONCERN: Member of Parliament Midiam Babu Rao receiving a representation from Girijan youth at a seminar conducted by Andhra Pradesh Girijan Sangham on anti-bauxite mining agitation in Visakhapatnam on Sunday.

VISAKHAPATNAM: CPI(M) MP Midiam Babu Rao on Sunday found fault with the State Government for signing a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Jindal Group for setting up an alumina plant and refinery in the district without consulting tribals and their representatives.

Speaking at a seminar on bauxite mining organised by the Andhra Pradesh Girijan Sangham (APGS), he said he would oppose the deal in the Parliament and try to drum up support of other MPs against the permission granted to Jindal Group to establish the plant and refinery at a cost of Rs. 9,000 crores. (more…)

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Mining project faces rough weather

Friday, 12 August 2005 by Samata

The Hindu | Santosh Patnaik | Friday, Aug 12, 2005

VISAKHAPATNAM: Even before grounding work, the Jindal South West Holding Limited (JSWHL), which wants to set up an alumina smelter and refinery in the district at a cost of Rs. 9,000 crores, is facing a rough weather.

The JSWHL can win its first battle in its quest for making use of huge bauxite deposits only when it can overcome protests from various social action groups. (more…)

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NGO opposes Jindal project

Monday, 18 July 2005 by Samata

Business Line | Visakhapatnam, July 18, 2005

SAMATA, an NGO working in the agency area of Visakhapatnam district, has urged the State Government to scrap the MoU signed recently with the Jindal group for exploitation of bauxite reserves in the region and setting up a smelter here.

At a press meet here on Monday, Mr Rebbapragada Ravi, Executive Director, said that the Government had signed the MoU with the Jindal group in a hurry.”It will result in an ecological disaster in the tribal tracts in the eastern ghats. The economic benefits resulting from the project are elusive and in any event they will not reach the tribals,” he said. (more…)

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Bauxite mining in E. Godavari, Vizag districts opposed

Thursday, 28 April 2005 by Samata

Business Line | Visakhapatnam, April 28, 2005

THE recent proposal by the State Government to permit bauxite mining in East Godavari and Visakhapatnam districts has evoked protests from environmentalists, NGOs and others because of the ecological implications and the likely fallout on the lifestyle of tribals.

It is estimated that the Eastern Ghats (from Papikondalu in East Godavari to Sileru in Visakhapatnam) contain 700 million tonnes of bauxite. The Telugu Desam Government made an attempt to lease out the area to a Dubai company but there was stiff opposition to the move. It had to be given up. It now seems to be the turn of the Congress Government. (more…)

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A Tribal Struggle

Wednesday, 29 September 2004 by Samata

Frontline | ASHA KRISHNAKUMAR | recently in Visakhapatnam district | Volume 21 – Issue 19, Sept. 11 – 24, 2004

The Andhra Pradesh government and private companies are pressuring people in the Integrated Tribal Development Agency areas of Visakhapatnam district to submit their lands for mining in violation of constitutional provisions and a Supreme Court order. And the tribal people are fighting back.

“ONE day in 1987 a few men in half pants, wielding chisels and hammers and tapes and magnifying glasses, descended on our village. Then came the drilling machines. The men then started to dig wells. Nobody told us who they were or why they had come. Soon revenue officials descended on our hamlet and asked us to vacate. They offered Rs.5,000 a family. More men came, tractors started leaving loads of stones everywhere. We were not told anything. We heard that a road was to be laid, and soon enough work began,” recounts S. Pollanna, headman of Nimalapadu, a tribal village in Visakhapatnam’s Paderu panchayat in Ananthagiri mandal. (more…)

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