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Jharkhand’s controversial Land Bank is undermining rights of marginalised
In 2021, 63-year-old Thupa Singh, an Adivasi farmer in the Daldalia village in Jharkhand’s Latehar district, found himself and eight other families in jeopardy. Thupa said that contractors and workers had arrived to construct Eklavya Model Residential School on the land they had been living on for generations. To their surprise, the portion of village land these families were living, cultivating, and paying taxes for was found to be already included in the state’s controversial Land Bank
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November 17, 2024
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