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City Forgotten: The Fate of India’s Small Cities - a film by @AyonaDatta from the research platform Learning from Small Cities in India
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City Forgotten: The Fate of India’s Small Cities
Malegaon, a small town near Nashik, Maharashtra, is driven solely by the power loom industry and is forgotten by the state and private sector since the Malegaon, a small town near Nashik, Maharashtra, is driven solely by the power loom industry and is forgotten by the state and private sector since the bomb blasts of 2006. Through the eyes of its residents, local activists and civil society members, City Forgotten tells the story of Malegaon’s fall from the Manchester of India to a town in decline, where its women and minorities continue to aspire for and claim their constitutional rights to education despite the lack of any real prospects for its future generations.

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Women farmers join ’long march’ to Mumbai to demand land, forest rights | PLACE
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Thousands of women farmers marched into Mumbai alongside their male peers on Monday demanding the government recognises their rights over forests and stops the takeover of land for industrial projects.

The protesters, who over several days walked 180 kilometres (112 miles) from the town of Nashik, northeast of Mumbai, also demanded waivers of farm loans, and higher prices for cereals and vegetables.

Among the more than 30,000 protesters, many wearing red caps and waving communist party flags, were groups of women farmers. Many till land they do not own, often because their husbands have migrated to the cities for jobs or committed suicide.

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Indian Farmers March Against Govt’s Neoliberal Policies | News | teleSUR English
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Nearly 35,000 farmers in India continued Sunday their 180-km long march in the southwestern state of Maharashtra demanding agrarian reform from the government of right-wing Bhartiya Janta Party, BJP.

The farmers’ march is part of an ongoing series of the ’long march’ which began from the southwestern city of Nashik to Mumbai on Mar. 6, and after walking for nearly 140 hours, tens of thousands of peasants reached Mumbai late Sunday night.

The farmers are uniting and calling upon the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to implement pro-peasant reforms. Some of the important demands laid out by the farmers in the ongoing march include debt waivers, better pay, and implementation of the Swaminathan Committee Report.

Swaminathan Commission report is a 2004 National Commission on Farmers which was formed to address the farmers’ suicides. In recent years, due to lack of government accountability and agrarian reforms, thousands of low-income farmers have taken their lives to escape the debt.

#Inde #agriculture #manifestation #dette #suicide