Excerpt: UN Conference on sustainable development in June 2013 set afoot a number of processes led by the UN with the primary objective of making the growth sustainable and inclusive, and integrate economic, social and environmental dimension of growth... Download
Excerpt: The outcome document of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, entitled тАЬThe future we wantтАЭ, inter alia, set out a mandate to establish an open working group to develop a set of sustainable development goals for consideration and appropriate action by the General Assembly... Download
Excerpt: The taungya system was devised by the forest department during the colonial rule in the early years of the century along with the policy of reservation of forests by the government, obviously as a means of procuring cheap in fact free labor for laying and protecting new plantations often in place of the newly exploited and clear-felled natural forests... Download
Excerpt: Recently a brutal case of witch hunting was reported by media in August 2015. The tragic incident of lynching of five women, mainly from tribal community, branded as witches by a group of villagers took place at Maray Toli, 2.5 kilometer away from Mandar police station in outskirt of capital city Ranchi in Jharkhand. Usually women were killed in the name of witch hunting in Jharkhand but this time the incident was different. Download
