By Debananda Medak, Time8 30/06/2020 The MoEFCC in its “India State of Forest Report 2019″ states that about 60 per cent of the country’s forest cover is in India’s tribal districts and North East India. Guwahati: The Indigenous Lawyers Association of India on Tuesday urged the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change to withdraw […]
NEW DELHI, 30 JUNE 2020: The Indigenous Lawyers Association of India (ILAI) in its submission to the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change today urged to withdraw the unconstitutional the Draft Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) Notification of 2020 which it described as an instrument to grab tribal lands and forests. The Ministry of Environment, […]
In its submission to the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, ILAI has requested either to withdraw the draft Environmental Impact Assessment Notification, 2020 as an executive order cannot override, amend or supersede the statutory provisions or ensure that the final EIA, 2020 expressly provide for compliance with the statutory laws like the PESA […]
Time8 18/06/2020 The Indigenous Lawyers Association of India argued that the online classes are directly creating further inequalities and the gap in learning in the classrooms because of the failure of the appropriate government to provide access to online education to all the students, particularly the SC/ST students. Guwahati: The Indigenous Lawyers Association of India […]
The Indigenous Lawyers Association of India (ILAI) has filed a complaint to the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) to ensure the fundamental right to education by ensuring inclusion of the tribals and other underprivileged students in the online classes imparted by the schools during the COVID19 lockdown period. To read more, please click
The Sentinel 17/06/2020 Online classes have been seen as an effective means to disseminate education during the lockdown Guwahati: The Indigenous Lawyers Association of India (ILAI) has filed a complaint to the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) to ensure the fundamental right to education by ensuring the inclusion of the underprivileged sections of society including […]
New Delhi, 17 June 2020: The Indigenous Lawyers Association of India (ILAI) has filed a complaint to the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) to ensure the fundamental right to education by ensuring inclusion of the underprivileged sections of society including tribals, dalits, forest dwellers and the poor in the online classes imparted by the schools […]
The Indigenous Lawyers Association of India (ILAI) has intervened with the NHRC against forcible land acquisition, non-payment of compensation and forced eviction of 5,000 tribals from six villages namely Kevadiya, Vagadiya, Navagam, Limbdi, Kothi and Gora near Statue of Unity under Garudeshwar taluka in Narmada district of Gujarat. Click here to read more..
The Sentinel 06/06/2020 ITANAGAR/NEW DELHI: The Indigenous Lawyers’ Association of India (ILAI) on Friday urged the Centre and Arunachal Pradesh government to scrap the proposed 3,097-MW capacity Dibang Valley hydroelectric power project to protect the environment and wildlife in the region. The 3,097 MW capacity power plant proposed to be commissioned by Etalin Hydro Electric […]
The Indigenous Lawyers Association of India (ILAI) on 6 June 2020 sought the intervention of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) against atrocities committed against tribals including burning down of a hut belonging to Sildaar Khajaan (55 years) by forest officials at Siwal village under Nepanagar police station in Burhanpur district of Madhya Pradesh on […]
