On 3rd January, 2022, over 2000 slum dwellers, mostly women, gathered to meet the press in Bhubaneswar to bring to public attention, how the policies and statutory rights acknowledged by the Odisha state government for slum redevelopment are not implemented in any measure on the ground. Unfortunately, the presence of mainstream media was negligible on […]
Cracks have appeared in the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM), an umbrella body of more than 400 farmers’ union across the country, that successfully lead the farmers’ movement against the Narendra Modi led BJP government, after 22 Punjab based farmers’ unions (all members of the SKM) floated a new political party, the Sanyukta Samaj Morcha (SSM), […]
Prashant Paikray, spokesperson, anti-Jindal & anti-POSCO movement in Odisha, gives an update on the recent police repression and the peoples’ struggle against JSW. Dear Friends, Greetings from Anti- Jindal & Anti- POSCO Movement, Odisha, India! The state government run by Mr. Nabin Pattnaik is making brutal police action against our people in order […]
Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) have clarified that they will not contest the Punjab Assembly elections. It has declared that no person or organization should use the name of SKM or 32 organizations joint forum in Punjab for elections. Chandigarh, Dec 25, 2021 : Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM), umbrella body of the farmers’ unions that spearheaded […]
Peasants and betel growers of Dhinkia, Gobindpur and Nuagaon villages of Jagatsinghpur district in Odisha, who for seventeen years have resisted the forceful acquisition of their land by POSCO, are once again facing brutal repression by the Odisha police. After POSCO – the South Korean steel major – was forced to withdraw from its proposed […]
চাষাবাদের সাথে যুক্ত একটা বড় অংশের মানুষের ভরসা এই সরকারি ব্যাঙ্কগুলোই। কম সুদে ব্যাঙ্ক থেকে ঋণ নিতে পারেন চাষিরা। তবে বেসরকারি হলে স্বাভাবিক ভাবেই সেই সমস্ত সুযোগ সুবিধার থেকে তাঁরা বঞ্চিত হবেন। তখন তাঁদের আশ্রয় হবে একমাত্র মহাজন। পীযূষ দত্তের প্রতিবেদন। রেল, বীমা, বিএসএনএলের পর এবার নজর ব্যাঙ্ক বেসরকারিকরণের দিকে। গত নভেম্বরের মাঝামাঝি, ভারতের অর্থমন্ত্রী […]
একটি গ্রাউন্ডজিরো প্রতিবেদন। গত ১২ তারিখ রাত ১১:৩০ টা নাগাদ, বকুলতলা থানার অন্তর্গত জীবন মণ্ডলের হাটের কাছে একটি বাড়ি থেকে তিন জন গণআন্দোলন ও সমাজকর্মীকে গ্রেফতার করে পুলিশ। ওই তিন জনের একজন যাদবপুর বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়ের বাংলা বিভাগের ছাত্র তীর্থরাজ ত্রিবেদী, আরেকজন পলিটেকনিক ইন্জিনিয়ার আলফ্রেড ডিক্রুজ। তাদের সাথে থাকা আরেকজনও পলিটেকনিকের ছাত্র রাকেশ আলি। পরেরদিন অর্থাৎ […]
Activists in West Bengal are at this point pondering over, debating and discussing the adverse impacts of the much touted mega open-cast coal mining project in Deocha-Pachami in the Birbhum district of West Bengal. While the adivasi villagers in the area are expressing their opposition to the mining project on their ancestral lands, and many […]
Farmers and Farm Unions struggle has achieved an historic victory. The union government have accepted most of their demands, including the complete withdrawal of the three contentious farm laws. The farmers have left for their homes vacating the borders of Delhi, which they have been occupying for over a year. But this historic victory means […]
Villagers are opposing the setting up of a 13.2 million tonne per annum(MPTA) capacity integrated steel project by JSW Utkal Steel Limited by Sajjan Jindal on land previously acquired for the South Korean steel major POSCO. A 900-MW captive power plant and a 10 MPTA cement unit are also proposed to be set up near […]
This is the second part of a two-part article by Prof. Amit Bhaduri. The articles were originally published at gaurilankeshnews.com The brightness has faded. The next election in UP, the most populous state in the country with maximum representation is around the corner. The BJP has lost badly state elections in West Bengal in […]
This is the first part of a two-part article by Prof. Amit Bhaduri. The articles were originally published at gaurilankeshnews.com A monster of not an entirely known shape has recently been injured, but how badly is not fully known. That only the future will tell. The monster, they say is a creation of Indian […]
4 December 2021: Another cyclone is approaching Odisha. Most of the people in coastal Odisha are hurrying into shelter homes. But the people of Dhinkia cannot sit at home. They are in panic. Jindal Steel Works wants to acquire their land for setting up a steel plant. The villagers fear that the police will enter […]
A statement endorsed by a part of the Indian academic community against the unscientific analysis of the ‘Uttar Pradesh model’ battling COVID 19, authored by IIT Kanpur faculty member Manindra Agarwal and others, that became a blanat propaganda of the UP Government. This statement is meant to be read in conjunction with a detailed […]
কৃষক আন্দোলনের বর্ষপূর্তিতে গ্রাউন্ডজিরো-র তরফে সুদর্শনা চক্রবর্তী কথা বললেন আন্দোলনের সঙ্গে এমন কয়েক জনের সঙ্গে যাঁরা আন্দোলনের সঙ্গে সরাসরি যুক্ত এবং পর্যবেক্ষক। ভারতীয় কিষাণ ইউনিয়ন একতা উগ্রাহান-এর সভাপতি যোগীন্দর সিং -এর বক্তব্য, “দেখুন, মোদী সাহেব কৃষি বিল প্রত্যাহারের যে ঘোষণা দিন কয়েক আগে করলেন তাতে তো অনেক দেরি করে ফেললেন তিনি, এ তো আরও […]