{"id":328,"date":"2000-12-20T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2000-12-20T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2000\/12\/20\/2000-12-20-encroachment-and-mining-threaten-tribal-lands\/"},"modified":"2000-12-20T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2000-12-20T12:00:00","slug":"2000-12-20-encroachment-and-mining-threaten-tribal-lands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2000\/12\/20\/2000-12-20-encroachment-and-mining-threaten-tribal-lands\/","title":{"rendered":"Encroachment and Mining Threaten Tribal Lands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Outlook Magazine<\/P><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p>NEW DELHI, INDIA, December 20, 2000: The government has secretly initiated a move to open up tribal-owned properties for acquisition and commercial exploitation, according to a report in the leftist &#8220;Outlook&#8221; magazine. The Union ministry of mines has put up a note marked &#8220;secret&#8221; &#8212; No16\/48\/97-M.VI &#8212; for the committee of secretaries to encourage an amendment to the constitution&#8217;s fifth schedule which covers tribal land. The amendment would circumvent a Supreme Court ruling of 1997 that any lease or license to non-tribals as &#8220;absolutely void and impermissible.&#8221; The move has set off angry reactions and threats of protest in Jharkhand and several states which will be affected. De-reservation of tribal land and rehabilitation of those displaced has always been a tricky issue. By official estimates only one-fourth of all tribals displaced between 1951 and 1990 by government projects, in the name of &#8220;national interest,&#8221; have been resettled. It is feared that once tribal land is opened up to mining companies, large-scale displacement of people will occur.<br \/>\n<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Outlook Magazine NEW DELHI, INDIA, December 20, 2000: The government has secretly initiated a move to open up tribal-owned,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}