Tag: Displaced Tribals

Call it government apathy or travesty of fate, as many as 144 families belonging to the tribal Khadia community now stare at an uncertain future after they were allegedly omitted from the voter list for this Panchayat elections.

While many of them are unable to find work for them, many families are unable to manage household chores with the interest gained on the Rs 10Lakh compensation they reportedly received two years back during the displacement.

Rourkela: The National Commission for Scheduled Tribes (NCST) today asked the Odisha government to take immediate steps for rehabilitation and resettlement of the tribal people displaced by the Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP). A 5-member team of NCST led by Chairperson Nand Kumar Sai had arrived in Rourkela today to address the issues of the displaced […]