Tribal News

Amar Sapra is a faculty member in the Department of Production and Operations Management while his wife is an educator and runs a nursery franchisee within the campus.
The 'Crime in India 2024' report released by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) has raised serious questions about Madhya Pradesh's law and order and social security.
A 23-year-old Kuki woman from Churachandpur district, Manipur, has come forward with serious allegations of prolonged physical and mental torture, starvation, wrongful confinement, and assault while working as a nanny-cum-housekeeper at the residence of an IIM Bangalore professor and his wife on the institute’s campus.
The situation took a serious turn when three Class 11 science students Puja, Kali Kumari and Sharada Kumari, all residents of Chadla village, were injured after a portion of the ceiling plaster collapsed on them.
The Chenchu Solidarity Forum (CSF) expressed deep concern over a rally organized at Achampet on April 27, which displayed banners claiming that "there is no forcible relocation of Adivasis."
The affected farmers claim that the land was allotted to them back in 1976 under a government scheme, but it has now been illegally declared as 'Nazool' land (land vested with the government) and handed over to an industry, pushing their families into a severe livelihood crisis.
A government school in Banswara.
Chenchu community members from affected villages of Sarlapally, Vatwarlapally, Kollampenta, Rayuletupenta, Uppununtala, Kudichintalabayalu came to Hyderabad on 17th April to submit petitions to the Chief Minister, through the Prajavani Grievance Cell, against the involuntary relocation and excesses of the Forest Department.
While the administration describes it as a legitimate action to remove encroachment from government land, the tribal families see it as a direct attack on their rights and livelihoods.
The core issue, the groups said, is that mining projects are being imposed without the free, prior, and informed consent of Gram Sabhas, in direct violation of the Forest Rights Act (FRA), PESA, and the Land Acquisition Act of 2013.
A collective hunger strike has completed 48 hours, leading to the health of many women and elders deteriorating. The lack of adequate medical facilities on site has made the situation even more worrisome.
Teachers are made to do non-educational tasks like census, livestock census, and various surveys. Due to these duties, enrollment in government schools has dropped drastically.
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