| Cross-Party Parliamentary |
Cross-Party Parliamentary
Forums 
This brief examines
how and why parliamentarians form political forums to represent specific
interests in the policy-making process. Four case studies offer insights and
strategies which can be adapted to the Indian context to help implement
legislative agendas and strengthen the voice of marginalized
constituencies.
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| Policy Brief |
 Maharashtra Adivasis' "Right to Water" A distant
dream
The Policy brief on
Maharashtra State Water Policy 2003, in the beginning lists down the key
provisions of the Policy vis-à-vis right to water. The brief points out how the
Policy though talks of “equity” and “sustainable use”, one can clearly observe
an increasing trend towards water privatisation by the state government, which
would lead to un-equitable distribution of water resources and make it more and
more inaccessible for adivasis.
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| TRTI |
 Tribal Research & Training Institute, Pune - An Assessment
TRTI clearly appears to suffer from extreme government control. As stated earlier TRTI undertakes research suggested by the Central and State Governments. The State Government even appears to set the agenda for research and determines the research findings. Government control also affects the personal recruitment policy at TRTI. The institute has no well trained and qualified research staff. A glance at the TRTI budget shows that a little over 80 percent is spent on salaries.
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| Striking While the Iron is Hot |
 A case study of the POSCO proposed project in
Orissa
TThis publication
is part of a larger action research project undertaken by the NCAS which
interrogates on the governance of land, water and forests in the central Indian
adivasi belt spread across five states. The research project is an attempt to
develop a holistic and systematic understanding of the processes of
globalisation and its impact on poor, ordinary and marginalised
people.
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| Organogram |
 Tracking Adivasi Governance in
Maharashtra
This document gives information on different adivasi institutions
of governance in the state, their structure, their role, addresses, names of
people associated with decision making in these institutions. The document will
help to understand where the policies and programmes related to tribals are
made; how these policies and programmes are implemented and how the evaluation
of these policies and programmes are done. Through a flow chart it also shows
how these institutions are interrelated.
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| Advocacy Perspective |
 Let our
Rightful Forests Flourish
The Forests Rights Act 2006 is a result of long sustained peoples’
struggles for justice and restoration of community rights over natural
resources. Some of these mass organizations hailed the Act as ‘second
independence’ and appreciated it for setting the legal framework for
‘independence of jungles’. Crucially, through this Act, the Indian Sate for the
first time acknowledged the ‘historic injustice’ done to the tribal and forest
dwelling communities.
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| Question Hour in Parliament |
 Question Hour in Parliament
QH is an initiative of NCAS to inform people about the discussion that took place during the Question Hour of Parliament on issue concerning the marginalised. This issue of Question Hour - Winter Session 2007 contains important questions related to the issue of the marginalised groups asked by various members of the Parliament and answers given by the respective Ministries of the Government.
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| Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: |
 A Study to Assess the Realisation of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in India
This study focuses on three crucial rights essential for life with dignity, namely, the right to education, right to health and the right to food, with particular reference to the marginalized sections (dalits, adivasis, women and children). The study was conducted in three States of India: Maharashtra, Karnataka and Chhattisgarh.
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| Globalisation in India |
 Civil Society Responses
Civil society activists in India joined forces with activists from around the world in Mumbai at the first ever World Social Forum in Asia to articulate their vision of ‘another world’, a vision of a world different from the current paradigm offered by the phenomenon of globalisation. This paper draws on research conducted by the author for the Ford Foundation on civil society engagement with institutions of global governance in 2007.
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| An Information Booklet |
 Minimum Wages
What needs to be done to ensure that workers particularly daily wage labourers from the unorganised sector get proper dues for their work? What can a worker do when he is denied the minimum wages due to him or her? This booklet helps us understand the context, idea, principles, laws and evolution of Minimum wages in India. It is also a manual for social activists and workers unions to use minimum wages in their collective struggles for justice.
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| Filth |
 The Struggles of the Manual Scavengers in Jharkhand
Even after sixty years of independence, India still has close to three lakh people working as manual scavengers (response to an un-starred question on 20-12-02, Lok Sabha). It is a real disgrace and affront on our democratic ideals of equity and justice that such a large number of right bearing citizens of this country are forced to indulge in the inhuman practice of manual scavenging..
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| Budget Track |
 Budgeting for the Marginalised
Budget Analysis’ is an extremely potent tool for making governments accountable to the promises it makes and the politics it professes. Across the world we have several examples of civil society using Budget Analysis as an effective tool of people centered advocacy for building pressure on governments to deliver on it’s commitments for pro-poor policies and programmes.
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| Issues and Campaigns |
 Info Pack on Sponge Iron Industry
In the past five years India has emerged as the largest producer of Sponge Iron. This Infopack is a compilation of case studies from Orissa, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Maharashtra, Goa, Karnataka, West Bengal and Andhra Pradesh, with descriptions and stories of the way the sponge iron factories operate and also the spontaneous movements that have emerged to oppose massive pollution and inaction by the authorities.
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| Advocacy Internet |
 Patents on Health and Life Forms
In India and most other parts of the world before TRIPS (Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights), IPRs (Intellectual Property Rights) were left to the discretion of respective states. In India the most well known legislation was the Patents Act 1970. The present issue of Advocacy Internet is dedicated to exclusively examine the ‘patent’ component within IPRs with respect to pharmaceuticals and life forms.
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| Advocacy Update |
 Land Rights
The increasing dispassession of land due to neo-economic policies, which favour land privatisation and large developments projects, the land dependent communities are pushed further at fringes of society. This update attempts to highlight various struggles and protests dealing with the question of land rights from the perspective of the rural poor, landless and marginalised communities.
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