Tag: Land Rights

By Sanjoy Patnaik The bulk of contemporary global literature on women’s land rights, largely emerging out of the work by practitioners and researchers at country level in the last two decades or more, has primarily focused on two key factors; a) why women need land and b) what are the key barriers to women getting […]

Chhatrapur: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today launched Odisha Liveable Habitat Mission at a State-level programme held in Chhatrapur of Ganjam district today to provide land rights to urban slum dwellers. The pilot mission, touted as world’s largest slum-titling project is implemented by Odisha government in collaboration with Tata Trust and will benefit over 10 lakh […]

Balasore: While Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik distributed land rights to landless slum dwellers through video conferencing as part of the ‘Jaga Mission’ in several districts of the State on Thursday, many beneficiaries in Balasore town returned empty-handed. Apart from Balasore, the programme was also launched in Puri, Boudh, Kendrapara, Bhadrak, Ganjam and Dhenkanal districts by […]

Sivasagar: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday castigated the previous governments in Assam for depriving its lakhs of poor indigenous people of their land rights. The BJP-led government in the state is committed to ensuring that the indigenous people have legal rights over their land, Modi said, after launching a drive to give ownership certificates […]