Ramesh Mehta, Former Secretary Academy Is No More
Family sources said Mehta was suffering from Covid19 infection. He survived by his wife son and daughter.
Ramesh Mehta, former Secretary of JK Culture Academy died on May 31, 2021. He was suffering from Civid19
Born in 1947, Ramesh Mehta was a writer, artist, and critic of national repute. He was a Hindi poet as well. Between 2003 and 2006, Mehta served as Secretary Cultural Academy.
Mehta joined Academy in 1973 as Editor Hindi section. This was the position wherefrom he contributed immensely to the promotion of Hindi and Dogri. In 1984, he was bestowed with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Authors Guild of India.
Superstition keeps Kashmir s tribal women from accessing birth control
Women in Kashmir s nomadic tribal communities are often married as teenagers and end up having multiple children they can t support, as their husbands forbid access to birth control.
Research has shown that tribal women in Kashmir are more prone to high-risk pregnancies
Rukaiya Jan, a woman from the Gujjar tribal community in Kashmir, was married at 15 years old, a common practice among Kashmir s nomadic herders.
Now 35, Jan has six children. The birth of her seventh baby, a girl, ended in tragedy, as the newborn died near a hospital gate several miles away from her home. Jan was unable to reach the hospital in time.
Reuters Kashmir to enact India s forest rights law 14 years on, in boost for nomads
Forest dwellers in Kashmir are pinning their hopes on the implementation of a 14-year-old law to save their land and homes, as the government announces plans to evict tens of thousands of people it says are encroaching on protected land. );
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Last month, the forest department of the Indian-administered territory published a list of about 63,000 people it says are living and farming illegally on a total of 15,000 hectares (37,000 acres) of forest land.
Now the tribal communities living in the region s forests are looking for protection under India s Forest Rights Act (FRA) of 2006, which is coming into effect in the region more than a decade after it was enacted elsewhere in India.
15 Jan 2021 / 09:03 H.
By Athar Parvaiz
SRINAGAR, India, Jan 15 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - F orest dwellers in Kashmir are pinning their hopes on the implementation of a 14-year-old law to save their land and homes, as the government announces plans to evict tens of thousands of people it says are encroaching on protected land.
Last month, the forest department of the Indian-administered territory published a list of about 63,000 people it says are living and farming illegally on a total of 15,000 hectares (37,000 acres) of forest land.
Now the tribal communities living in the region s forests are looking for protection under India s Forest Rights Act (FRA) of 2006, which is coming into effect in the region more than a decade after it was enacted elsewhere in India.