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To
Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister
New Delhi

Date: 6th July, 2010

Subject: Upholding Right to Education: End Occupation of Schools in Jharkhand by CRPF forces.

Dear Mr. Kapil Sibal,

On April 1st, 2010 India joined the league of over 130 countries which have legal guarantees to provide free and......

Operation Green Hunt causing immense suffering & humiliation to the innocent rural folk in Jharkhand

Father Stan Swamy

Clause 4.e.(1) of The Provisions of the Panchayats (Extension to the Scheduled Areas) Act, 1996, [PESA] says: “ every Gram Sabha shall approve the plans, programmes and......

Executive Summary

The Independent Peoples Tribunal on Land Acquisition, Resource Grab and Operation Green Hunt

Date: 9th to 11th April 2010

Venue: Constitution Club, Rafi AMrg, New Delhi

Central India is home to the Adivasis and Dalits, India’s first people. It is also home to the richest concentration of natural resources in the country.Today, as powerful Indian and global......

Press Statement on the price rise, the hunger crisis and the proposed

Food Security Bill

On 5th of July the country is at a standstill because of Bharat bandh called by opposition parties to force the Government to address the crisis of the price rise of essential commodities including food.

The level......

“Creating food insecurity: an analysis into the structural and policy factors increasing food insecurity in India”

Press statement

The food crisis of hunger and malnutrition in India is a reality we can no longer ignore. It is the face of the underweight children dying of starvation; it is the face......

Earth Science School 2010

Bhumi Vigyan: Building Community through Love and Laughter

Bhumi Vigyan kicked off on May 31st as children aged 9 - 15 from the farming villages of Jhivan Redi, Ramgarh, and Naya Gaon arrived through the fields, foot paths, and orchards of Bija Vidyapeeth by foot, auto-rickshaw, and cycle.......

Navdanya successfully organised a mango festival at its Biodiversity Conservation farm at village Ramgarh on Old Shimla Road in Dehradun. About 75 people including some of the Navdanya family members were present at the occasion.

Participants were briefed about Mango and its varieties and history. Navdanya's Organic Mango orchard was visited......