The biggest misfortune of the Tribal people is that they inhabit lands that are highly rich in minerals, water and other resources that the state and private corporations need for “development” of the country. Almost 90 percent of all coal and around 50 percent of the remaining minerals are in their regions. This “development” has nothing to do with making their lives better or more secure. On the contrary, they are assured of being up-rooted from their familiar surroundings and forced to learn how to survive in an alien societal set up with strange rules.
Through decades tribals have been constantly losing their land holdings to powerful non-tribals and their alienation is still going on. The indigenous/ tribal peoples who constituted 8% of the total population of India at 2001 census make up over 50% of the total displaced people due to development projects. According to the Ministry of Tribal…
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