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Ambrish Mehta

Also known as: અંબરીષ મહેતા

By Ambrish Mehta (3)

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  • Forest Departments, Incentives and the Environment · 2020
    • "We are working with about thirty, fifty villages in that whole area." · Speaker describing ARCH-Vahini's field area, consistent with Ambrish Mehta's known work
    • "And we have seen this with our own eyes. Once the Forest Rights Act came into being and people were confident that now all the rights are going to be recognized" · First-person testimony from an ARCH-Vahini activist
  • Forest Rights Act, 2006 : The Struggle for Implementation - Part I · 2020
    • "Ambrish Mehta and Trupti Mehta ( Activists, ARCH-Vahini) talk about the key features of the Forest Rights Act, 2006 and the hurdles towards the implementation of the Act on ground." · Editorial description identifying the interview's subjects
  • Forest Rights Act, 2006: The Struggle for Implementation - Part II · 2020
    • "Ambrish Mehta and Trupti Mehta ( Activists, ARCH-Vahini) talk about the key features of the Forest Rights Act, 2006 and the hurdles towards the implementation of the Act on ground." · Editorial description identifying the interview subjects.
  • India's forest-dwellers: From Owners to Encroachers · 2020
    • "It is important to realize how the tribals have lost their rights on the natural resources — land, forest, and other livelihoods — is very, very, very, very important in that sense." · Opening framing of the interview's central argument.
    • "People themselves acquired rights of the lands by clearing the forest, starting cultivating." · Articulates a Lockean labor-mixing theory of customary tribal land rights.
  • The Challenges leading to the Forest Rights Act, 2006 · 2020
    • "From the nineteen eighties, people like us were struggling, were helping the people to struggle and have their rights recognized." · Speaker frames the activist 'we' that the editorial attributes to the Mehtas of ARCH-Vahini.
    • "So we worked together, and then this Campaign for Survival and Dignity was born." · First-person account of co-founding the umbrella campaign.
  • Tribals and Development: Countering the Myths · 2020
    • "Most of the tribals, you ask them, this is the myth. The tribals don't want development. This is complete myth." · Opening statement framing the interview's central argument.
    • "We have not really given them an alternative of developing themselves. We have given them the alternative of sacrificing for the development of others." · Critique of six decades of post-independence development policy toward tribals.