Her story in photos of two public hearings for environment clearance to Vedanta’s bauxite mining proposal in Rayagada and Kalahandi districts, Odisha By Rajaraman, Debabrata and Evanjelina. Women of Banteji village, in the foothills of Tijmali, collectively resolve to oppose bauxite mining on the night before the public hearing of 16th October […]
Groundxero | 1st November, 2023 Vedanta Limited’s proposed bauxite mining project at Sijimali in Odisha’s Rayagada district is being intensely opposed by local Adivasi and Dalit villagers who have voiced concerns over their eviction and possible adverse impact of the mining project on their livelihoods and local ecology. On March 1 of this […]
Groundxero | 31st October, 2023 A huge public meeting was held on 29th October at Talaampadar of Thuamal Rampur Block in Kalahandi district of Odisha. This public meeting was attended by over 2000 people. The objective of the meeting was to strengthen the bonds across the communities and reiterate their resolve to unitedly continue […]
Groundxero Report | 19th October, 2023 The second Public Hearing, required to obtain the Environment Clearance for the Sijimali Bauxite Mining Project of Vedanta, met with equal resounding opposition from local villagers. It was held on Oct 18 at Kerpai High School premises in Thuamul Rampur Block of Kalahandi district, Odisha. The public hearing started at […]
25 September 2023 A public hearing has been announced for Vedanta’s bauxite mining project in South Odisha after intense repression of villagers and activists opposing the project for over one month. The Sijimali Bauxite Mining Project spreads over both Thuamal Rampur block in Kalahandi District and Kashipur block in Raygada District. It is shocking […]
State and capital has zeroed in on the rich bauxite and lime stone reserves of South Odisha now. The BJD-led state government and the BJP at the Centre are handing over dangars, mountains for meager profits to Vedanta, Adani, Dalmia Cement and Aditya Birla. The rights won through PESA and FRA after long years of […]
29 May marked the 23rd year of brutal atrocity by the state, in which five fisherfolk were killed in a police firing in Chilika in Odisha as the community took to direct action in dismantling illegal prawn gherries. GroundXero publishes excerpts from Chapter 6 : Chilika Teere from the book Resisting Dispossession: The Odisha Story, written by Ranjana Padhi and […]
The Forum for Gram Sabha Committee, a local people’s organization, has been protesting against the proposed land acquisition for limestone mining of OCL India Ltd. at Rajgangpur, Sundargarh. It has also been raising voices against the gross violations of constitutional provisions related to the 5th Schedule Area and LARR Act, 2013 in the process of […]
Incidentally this attack has been largely ignored by the state and national media, and came to light only when videos of the attack were circulated on twitter. While people across the country celebrated the 131st Ambedkar Jayanthi on 14th April 2022, in Bargarh district of Odisha, Bajrang Dal members carried out a horrendous assault […]
Trade unions, democratic rights groups and other progressive forces in Odisha, strongly condemn the manner in which Batakrushna Swain was arbitrarily foisted with fresh charges by the state police on 12 April 2022 as he was ready to leave the Puri jail. Batakrushna Swain is the Convenor of Upakuliya Jami o Jangal Surakhya Samiti and […]
A joint team of human right organisations visited Dhinkia and the surrounding villages from January 29 to 31. This coastal region of Jagatsinghpur district in Odisha is the place where forcible land acquisition for Jindal Steel Works by the Odisha government has resulted in brutal police repression on the protesting villagers. The team addressed a […]
Odisha : The proposed steel plant site of JSW in Odisha’s Jagatsinghpur district on Friday ( 14 January, 2022) turned into a battlefield as villagers clashed with the police over demolition of betel vines. The incident occurred near Dhinkia village, which happens to be the epicenter of the peoples’ movement against the setting up of […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]