KORAPUT, India — At a small stream in India’s eastern state of Odisha, Indigenous villagers catch eels and fish for a dinner celebrating an annual harvest festival. The bounty of communal farming, ...

an indigenous community in Gadia village in Deogarh district, Odisha. (WaterAid / Meenal Upreti) Two communities listed as SCs — Tamadia and Tamudia — will be removed from the SC list and ...

In this respect, as many as nearly 48,000 villages are affected. Even, Odisha has fared poorer than north-eastern States like Manipur and Meghalaya. However, the dubious list is led by BJP-ruled ...

Odisha published the first draft beneficiary list in all its villages. Those not on the list were allowed to submit green forms to the Agriculture Department to be included, while those who were ...

In 2021, the village of Kodalpalli in Odisha’s Nayagarh district became one of the few places in India where the country’s landmark Forest Rights Act of 2006 (FRA) was translated into formal ...