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Farmers’ Mahapanchayat in Rajasthan Issues 20-Day Ultimatum to Cancel MoU of Ethanol Plant

As the standoff in Rajasthan’s Hanumangarh district enters a critical phase, the struggle for farmers of Tibbi tehsil is no longer only against an ethanol plant. It has become a larger battle over who decides the future of land and water—and whether rural livelihoods and fragile ecologies can survive the march of an ecologically destructive, […]


In scorching summer heat, household electricity connections cut off in a village in Rajasthan, protesters arrested

Since September 2019, villagers under the banner of Bijli Upbhogta Sangharsh Samiti, in Hanumangarh district of Rajasthan, have been peacefully protesting the arbitrary and extreme hikes in electricity bills. On 28 May, two activists of Bijli Upbhogta Sangharsh Samiti, Shailendra and Sandeep, were arrested for peacefully opposing the state electricity department’s inhuman action of cutting […]