23 year old Sujeeta comes from the Seraikela-Kharsawan district. She belongs to the Santhal tribe, which is the largest tribal community in India. Farming is the main occupation of her community and it depends mainly on forest produce for daily needs. For her people, the relationship with the forests they inhabit is now an extremely tenuous one with extractive industries springing up right, left and centre. Sujeeta has worked extensively with 'Jan-Jangal Adhikar' in over 10 villages in her district, mobilizing people and making them aware of forest and land rights. As a video activist she will now be able…
In another incident of illegal acquisition of land, Ramkrishna Forging Company snatched away the agrarian land that belonged to the tribals. This, when there are already 1600 factories in the Adityapur Industrial Belt nearby. In this report, Community Correspondent Sujeeta Tudu talks to the locals, whose land was taken away.
This video is made by a Video Volunteers Community Correspondent Sujeeta Tuddu reporting from Gamharia, Jharkhand.
