Who Will Guard the Guardians? State Accountability in India s Environmental Governance
Effective public accountability is a prerequisite for protecting India s environment and the environmental human rights of all Indians. However, the question of what factors promote the accountability of public institutions remains under-researched in India. The recent and ongoing attempts by the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change to undermine environmental regulations beg a fundamental question that has yet to be debated adequately: Who will guard the guardians? In this essay, we discuss the importance of divided administrative jurisdictions for fostering relations of accountability in public institutions. Specifically, we highlight the divided jurisdiction that the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006 creates in the regulation of mining and other non-forestry activities in forest areas and its implications for bolsterin
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Over the last two decades Björk has established herself as pop music’s preeminent innovator, a fearless and restless proponent of the avant-garde whose discography defies the staid categorisation of genre. When DiS Kevin Perry meets her on a summer afternoon in West London they talk about her new album
Biophilia, about education, about feminism and Lady Gaga’s outfits, about why she’s like carrot soup and tequila and Coldplay are like chips and sausages , about political activism and aluminum mining and even about the lack of punk spirit in proprietary software, a topic she acknowledges she probably shouldn’t talk about.
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“In our faith there is no heaven or hell,” spoke Mayalmit Lepcha in the Janata Parliament – an Indian people’s parliament which happened online this year, on account of COVID-19. Her network is spotty. She’s in the mountains. I listen hard and try to piece together what she’s saying. Mayalmit is from the Lepcha tribe in North Sikkim, and she is among the people on the ground fighting the Teesta dam project in her state. In the virtual parliament she explains how the successive damming of her community’s waterways has displaced her people and decimated her forests.
For Odisha tribals, physical distancing has been a way of life
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Traditional practices insulated them from COVID-19 to a big extent, says study
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A Bonda tribal woman attending a State government programme at the Mudulipada gram panchayat in Malkangiri district of Odisha.
Traditional practices insulated them from COVID-19 to a big extent, says study
The tribal population in Odisha was largely untouched by the COVID-19 pandemic as its unique customary practices
and traditions were in sync with the preventive measures to keep infection at bay, finds a study by Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Research and Training Institute (SCSTRTI), a premier government-run research institute on indigenous people.