INDIA: Tribal people’s livelihoods threatened due to the confiscation of their land in Chitrakoot, Uttar-Pradesh

INDIA: Tribal people’s livelihoods threatened due to the confiscation of their land in Chitrakoot, Uttar-Pradesh

In 1991 the Revenue Department, in consultation with local Panchayats (village governments), gave a land entitlement to 46 landless Kol adivasis (indigenous tribal people) and other villagers in Ailaha Badhaiya, Chitrakoot. After precise measuring and mapping, the land was handed over to these families individually. Read more about INDIA: Tribal people’s livelihoods threatened due to the confiscation of their land in Chitrakoot, Uttar-Pradesh