Even as Adivasi and Dalit communities in Odisha’s Sijimali region continue to resist mining operations, the state has responded not with dialogue but with an intensifying crackdown on villagers aimed at breaking a sustained people’s movement against the bauxite project of Vedanta Limited in Kashipur block of Raygada district. The arrests of anti-mining solidarity struggle […]
Kartik Naik is one of the leading Dalit activists from the anti-mining group Ma Maati Maali Surakhya Manch (Rayagada-Kalahandi) in Odisha. Kartik is among the activists who are resisting the setting up of a bauxite mine in the Sijimali/Tijmali hills in Rayagada and Kalahandi districts of South Odisha by Vedanta Ltd. Thirty-year-old Kartik was picked […]
Groundxero : November 23, 2023 #SijimaliMatters Update #5 The past three and a half months have been both tumultuous and decisive in shaping the antimining resistance of Adivasis and Dalits in South Odisha. As we bring to you our fifth update, twenty three activists arrested since mid-August have stepped out of the confines […]