The chief judicial magistrate reported in that 4, cases were pending against about 14, tribals in various courts of the district. Police repression led to several cases of human rights abuse. There were reports in the media of how forest officials and timber merchants had connived to cut forests by encouraging the tribals. Once the timber was removed, the tribals were charged with felling.
The cutting of forests continued. Several leaders of the andolan were arrested, including Majhi, who had emerged as the most visible leader of the andolan. Majhi contested the parliamentary bye-election from a Jharkhand Mukti Morcha JMM ticket, but lost to Bagun Sumbrui, the Janata Party candidate who got a lot of support from non-tribals during the elections and had opposed the andolan all along. Sumbrai is today the speaker of the Jharkhand legislative assembly.
But Majhi went on to contest the legislative assembly elections and became a member of the legislative assembly MLA. The thrust of this organisation's argument was that Kolhan was a government estate at the time of India's independence with an administrative set up based on Wilkinson's Rules.
They proclaimed that Kolhan had not become independent in with the rest of India. They also sent a representation to the United Nations in Geneva. On their return, these leaders faced sedition charges. Other leaders went underground and encouraged the Jungle Andolan's spread eastwards into the famous Saranda forest. By , the Jungle Andolan had cooled off.
A writ petition filed in the Supreme Court by Mathew Areeparmpil, director of the Tribal Research and Training Institute, led to the court putting an end to the police terror. In , the Ranchi bench of the Patna High Court, after hearing a petition by tribals regarding the taking away of their land by the FD ordered the deputy commissioner of Singhbhum to hold an enquiry into the claims of tribals on the land that was under the forest department.
No action has been taken on that court order till date. The tribals who had taken back the land of their ancestors are still cultivating that land, though they complain that the forest department troubles them ceaselessly. Devendra Manjhi was killed in His wife, Joba Majhi, became a member of the Bihar legislative assembly in After Jharkhand's creation, she became minister of tourism in the Babulal Marandi cabinet.
She made public statements that her condition for joining the cabinet was that the tribals who had taken back their lands should be awarded patta s title deeds of that land. The Marandi government fell in March , and Joba Majhi joined the Arjun Munda cabinet, again as tourism minister -- again after making a lot of press statements that her condition for joining the cabinet was that the tribals listed as encroachers be given their land.
Kunwar Singh Jonko, and hundreds of Ho people, keep trying to evade the legal notices they keep getting. Chandra Bhushan Deogan, an advocate associated with JOHAR, says the most frustrating part of the affair is that the forest department refuses to make public the notifications that marked the reserved forest. He says the department is doing this deliberately as the notifications can be challenged because in several areas, the procedure laid down in the Indian Forest Act of for notifying a forest has been violated.
Forest department officials refuse to part with the notification. Joba Majhi, her ministerial status notwithstanding, says she hasn't been able to see the notification because of the forest department's non-cooperation. Jharkhand's minister of environment and forest, Yamuna Singh, is from the Kharwar tribe.
He alleges that people who have captured forestland don't think of national interest, and that most of them are settlers from West Bengal and Orissa.
In any case, he says, he can't release the land even if he wanted to, because of the forest case in the Supreme Court Godavarman v Union of India. It is quite clear that the forest case has become a ready excuse for anybody who doesn't want to earnestly work out a solution to the precarious situation that the tribals of Sighbhum find themselves in. Political observers also say that finding a solution is not advantageous to the Jharkhand leaders as it wipes out a healthy issue to draw votes during elections.
The district is rich in minerals and these are found abundantly. From the administrative point of view this district has been divided into two Sub-Division Dhalbhum and Ghatshila. There are Panchayat and about revenue villages out of which Revenue Villages are inhabited and rest Revenue villages are unhabitated. The Head Quarter of this district is Jamshedpur. The Climate of the district is temperate. Annual rainfall is mm to mm. This area comes under the path of south-west monsoon so sometimes it receive heavy rain during July to September,During the summer season maximum temperature goes upto degree centigrade whereas in winter it has recorded a minimum 8 degree centigrade.
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