The Indian Act is just one of many policies developed by the government of Canada in order to assimilate and colonize First Nations people of Canada. The Indian Act sets forth racist, colonizing and assimilating properties in order to control First Nations people and ensure their right to self-determination is abolished. Women’s rights, property rights, and self-determination are just three aspects of the Indian Act that has negatively impacted First Nations people in Canada throughout history and to this day. The Indian Act especially impacted women as it took away their right to status in certain circumstances. Property rights were also affected as the government took away the rights to the land, and continues to use it for their benefit today. Lastly, the Indian Act has not helped First Nations people and their fight for self-determination in Canada, more so it has attempted to assimilate and completely colonize First Nations people without regard for their right to self-government. The amendments to the Indian Act were done to fix the wrong doings of the original Indian Act, however the Indian Act still has a far way to come before it is completely fair and acknowledges the rights of the First Nations people in Canada…
Government carry out the allocation of natural resources so as to mitigate the financial issues and fiscal deficit of the country. Also, the parties to whom these resources are allocated are required to utilise these for the benefit of the people dwelling there. Local people are the owner of the natural resources. While allocating natural resources government should take consent of local people. Government should respect the rights of local people or tribal communities. State just acts as a trustee for local population.…
he Constitution of India is the supreme law of India. It lays down the framework defining fundamental political principles, establishes the structure, procedures, powers, and duties of government institutions, and sets out fundamental rights, directive principles, and the duties of citizens. It is the longest[1] written constitution of any sovereign country in the world, containing 444[Note 1] articles in 22 parts, 12 schedules and 118 amendments. Besides the Hindi version, there is an official English translation. Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar is widely known as the father of the Indian Constitution.…
The discussion of panchayat associated with the rural self-government framework which has profoundly established in medieval and antiquated circumstances. These organizations acted as a gift for town poor group as opposed to a danger, this framework stayed limited to settle minor issues identifying with organization or neighborhood question. These two frameworks, in view of the present populist soul, were stripped of their great components and provincial administration crushed the soul of such discussions amid their time and formalized them into court-like foundations to force and uphold honest to goodness ridiculous and unforgiving laws just to stifle the town group. The Regal Commission on Decentralization of 1907 prescribed…
References: Ananthanarayanan Sriram,’Scheduled Tribe Status for Adivasis in Assam’, available at: http://www.apps.cla.umn.edu /directory/items/...../292772 doc-united States.…
Adivasi societies are particularly present in the Indian states of Orissa, Madhya Pradesh, Chattisgarh, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal (Special reference of North Bengal), Mizoram and other north-eastern states, and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Many smaller tribal groups are quite sensitive to ecological degradation caused by modernization. Both commercial forestry and intensive agriculture have proved destructive to the forests that had endured Sweden agriculture for many centuries. Adivasi populations suffer disproportionately from India’s modernization. Many depends on India’s forests for their livelihood, and they have suffered from both the destruction of these forests as well as state efforts to preserve the forests which often fail to account for the populations that live within them. They are increasingly becoming migrant laborers, a process which tears at the social fabric of their communities. The condition of the Adivasi populations varies quite considerably from one state to the next. National law gives states considerable power over defining who count as a “Scheduled Tribe” and who does not. As a result, the same group might be considered a scheduled tribe in one state, but not in the neighbouring state.…
"PART IX * THE PANCHAYATS 243. Definition -In this Part, unless the context otherwise requires:a) "district" means a district in a State; b) "Gram Sabha" means a body consisting of persons registered in the electoral rolls relating to a village comprised within the area of Panchayat at the village level; c) "Intermediate level" means a level between the village and district levels specified by the Governor of a State by public notification to be the intermediate level for the purposes of this Part; d) "Panchayat" means an institution ( by whatever name called) of self-government constituted under article 243B, for the rural areas; e) "Panchayat area" means the territorial area of a Panchayat; f) "population' means the population as ascertained at the last preceding census of which the relevant figures have been published; g) "village" means a village specified by the Governor by public notification to be a village for the purposes of this Part and includes a group of villages so specified. 243-A.Grama Sabha - A Gram Sabha may exercise such powers and perform such functions at the village levei as the Legislature of a State may, by law, provide. 243-B.Constitution of Panchayats -(1) There shall be constituted in every State, Panchayats at the village, intermediate and district levels in accordance with the provisions of this Part. ^Notwithstanding anything in clause (1), Panchayats at the intermediate level may not be constituted in a State having a population not exceeding twenty lakhs. 243-C.Composition of Panchayats -(1) Subject to the provisions of this Part, the Legislature of a State may, by law, making provisions with respect to the composition of Panchayats : * Inserted vide Constitution 73rd Amendment Act, 1992 and came into force on 22.04.1993.…
* IDSA Foundation Day Lecture delivered by Shri Ved Marwah, Governor of Jharkhand on November 11…
In this case, the validity of 24th, 25th and 29th amendments to the Constitution of India…
Executive Summary .................................................................................................................5 Executive Summary .................................................................................................................6 CHAPTER 1: DEPARTMENT OF PANCHAYATI RAJ – A BACKGROUND ..........................................11 1. Department of Panchayati Raj - A background ...................................................................12 1.1. Vision of the department................................................................................. 12 1.2. Administrative set –up of Department of Panchayti Raj ...................................... 12 1.3. Key functions of the department ...................................................................... 16 1.4. Stakeholders of the department ....................................................................... 16 1.5. Departmental Services .................................................................................... 19 1.5.1. Information Services....................................................................................... 19 1.5.2. Transactional Service ...................................................................................... 20 1.6. Plans of the department – 5 year perspective.................................................... 21 1.7. Service delivery vision of the department – 5 year perspective ........................... 21 CHAPTER 2: AS – IS STATUS…
There are certain core parts of the Constitution which cannot be amended, at least not with the normal procedures of amendment. There was a time in the history of India when this particular issue was hotly debated, like the period from 1970s to 1980s.…
It was under the Government of Indian Act, 1935 that the hill areas of Assam was classified into 3 categories (1) Excluded areas (2) Partially Excluded Area and (3) Frontier Areas. The Excluded Areas were the Naga hills, the Lushai hills and the North Cachar hills. The Excluded Areas were the Naga hills, the Lushai hills and the North Cachar hills. The Garo hills, the Miker hills and the British portions of the Khasi and Jaintia other than the Shillong Municipality and Cantonment were partially Excluded areas. The Frontier Areas were Balipara, Sadiya, Lakhimpur Tracts. The Governor of Assam was vested with powers and authority over the Frontier Tracts. The Governor was also responsible for Excluded Areas were the Naga hills district, the Lushai hills district and the North Cachar Hills. The Ministers in Assam province had no jurisdiction on matters relating to Excluded Areas. The Partially Excluded Areas, the Khasi hills district, Jantia hills district and Garo hills district and the Miker hills district were administered by the Provincial Government of Assam. At the same time, the Governor had the power to withhold or apply the laws passed by the Provincial legislature with or without modifications. Among the hill districts, the Khasi hills district was the most advanced, might be because Shillong was the capital of Assam. The Khasis were in contact with the Government of Assam as well as the plain people. The political status of the hill districts of Assam both Excluded and Partially Excluded Areas was discussed and examined by the Cabinet Mission of the British government in 1946. The Cabinet Mission suggested that an Advisory Committee on the rights of citizens, Minorities and Tribals should be formed to make proposals for the administration of tribal areas. The Constituent Assembly, accordingly set up an Advisory Committee. This Committee appointed a Sub-Committee with Gopinath Bordoloi as its…
The districts of Chattisgarh, known as the Naxal-affected belts, are areas where the scheduled tribes and castes make up more than 60 per cent of the population. Poverty is endemic in this region. The government is carrying out two types of development. The first is based on industries, mining and commercialization, and the second is linked with the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, the mid-day meal scheme and primary education. As far as the Naxal problem is concerned, the policy is to use ‘maximum force’. Which of these development models and policies is working is a critical question for the future of these states and their people.…
Her research focuses on the cultural politics of environment and development. More recently, she has focused on urban environmental politics, especially bourgeois environmentalism and spatial restructuring in the context of economic liberalization in Delhi. Her latest research examines changing food practices in western India in relation to the transformation of agrarian environments. She has taught at the University of Delhi, and has been a visiting scholar at Stanford, Cornell, Yale, London School of Economics and the University of California at Berkeley.…
New Delhi Declaration on High Blood Pressure Adopted by Health Ministers of 11 SEARO Countries…