Sangharsh to UPA: Ensure Land Rights: Stop Land Acquisition and Displacement

Sangharsh to UPA: Ensure Land Rights: Stop Land Acquisition and Displacement Struggle for right to life and development intensifies Gram Sabha Divas and Bhumi Haq Satyagraha before August 31st New Delhi: August 5 – Amidst heavy rains and scorching heat and worsening political climate, thousands of adivasis, farmers, labourers, forest dwellers, fish workers, hawkers, small [...]

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Land Rights, not Land Acquisition! Participatory progress not corporate growth!

New Delhi, 4th August 2011: Minister of Rural Development Jairam Ramash was told forcefully by a delegation from Sangharsh that the issue of land aquistion is political and is one of the most burning issues of the country and that cannot be passed with a political process and discussion in the country. The minister was [...]

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Press Release from Sangharsh Day 1

New Delhi: August 3 – Over 4500 people from around 15 states univocally demanded immediate repeal of the archaic Land Acquisition Act 1894 (LAA) and replacement of it with a comprehensive National Development Planning Act. They vowed never to desert their land to the government or private builders. They have joined the Sangharsh dharna at [...]

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