Ratan Dhakad from Chittorgarh reports that no local villager has benefited from the Hindustan Zinc factory by Vedanta in last 20 years. No local has got job and people have been paid very little in compensation for their land

Himanshu Kumar on his cycle yatra has reached villages in Chittorgarh district of Rajasthan. He reports from there that people from evicted villages of Vedanta’s Hindustan Zinc are sitting on a protest from last 135 days but no one has taken notice of them. No media or politician has visited them. In water scarce Rajasthan Vedanta is also digging deep tube wells and making ponds to supply water to the factory which will also submerge the golden triangle road

Many peoples organization like Chhattisgarh Mukti Morcha and political parties like Gondwana Gantantra party and Janta Dal United have got together to launch Chhattisgarh Bachao Andolan ( Movement to Save Chhattisgarh) in a rally on 9th August on the occasion of World Indigenous Day. The rally will demand better implementation of Forest Rights Act, PESA act and no displacement of tribals for industrialization in the state

Philmon Toppo is informing about a rally being organized in Jashpur on the occasion of World Indigeneous Day on 9th August. The rally will present a memorandum to Governer to not displace tribals in the name of industrialization among other demands

Himanshu Kumar updates us about his ongoing cycle yatra along with Abhay Singh Rathwa in Rajasthan. Recently, a large rally was organized in Jaipur with the help of of Kavita Srivastav which was attended by the activists and intellectuals of the city including the likes of Aruna Roy. Continuing with the yatra, they came across an area where nine of the villages, including Bagrukhur, Tilawal, Dariya, Palri, Talwara had been given to the Mahindra and Mahindra group for a Special Economic Zone (SEZ) without the consent of the villagers. However, they also met with a a ray of hope in the form of a girl who had resisted getting married when she was in Class 8, and has now passed her MA. Since then she has helped in avoiding at least 15-16 other child marriages like her’s. The yatra has reached Tiloniya, home to Bunker Roy’s Barefoot College. They will then proceed to Ajmer, where they are scheduled to meet a group of college students.