Dayamani Barla
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Dayamani Barla is a tribal journalist from Jharkhand, India who advocates for land rights and adequate compensation for tribal communities affected by development projects. She became notable for her opposition to Arcelor Mittal's proposed steel plant that would displace forty villages. Barla grew up in a tribal family that struggled after being cheated out of their land. Despite financial difficulties, she pursued education and now works as a journalist to bring attention to issues facing tribal groups in Jharkhand. Barla has won several awards for her rural journalism and activism against projects that appropriated tribal lands without proper compensation.
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Dayamani Barla
- 2. INTRODUCTION Dayamani Barla is a tribal journalist and activist from the Indian state of Jharkhand. She became notable for her activism in opposing Arcelor Mittal's steel plant in Eastern Jharkhand that tribal activists say would displace forty villages. Barla has won a number of prestigious awards for journalism. She unsuccessfully ran from the Khunti Lok Sabha Constituency, Jharkhand in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections as an Aam Aadmi Party candidate.
- 3. Early life Dayamani was born in the tribal family in Jharkhand state of eastern India. Her family belonged to the Munda tribe. Dayamani's father like other tribals in the region was cheated out of his property, because he could not read and lacked paperwork to show his rights to the land. Her father became a servant in one city, and her mother a maid in another. Barla remained in school in Jharkhand but worked as a day labourer on farms from the 5th to 7th grades. To continue her education through secondary school, she moved to Ranchi and worked as maid to pay her way through University. She, sometimes, slept at railway stations to continue her education in Journalism
- 4. Career Barla works in a popular Hindi newspaper Prabhat Khabar to bring attention to myriad problems facing the Munda people Career and other tribal communities in the Jharkhand region. She is the National President of Indian Social Action Forum INSAF . Earlier her journalistic work was supported by a small fellowship for some years by Association for India's Development (AID). Barla owns and runs a tea shop that effectively supports her journalistic desire and career. She chose the business consciously because tea shops are gathering places where social issues are discussed
- 5. Activism Jharkhand region is rich in natural resources and many government and private companies have appropriated land to build number of natural resources extracting factories. Although the tribal people are supposed to receive compensation, numbers of activists allege that they do not receive adequate compensation. Arcelor Mittal wants to invest US$8.79 billion to set up one of the world's biggest steel plants in the area. The Greenfield steel project requires 12,000 acres (49 km2 ) of land and a new power plant.
- 6. Awards Barla won the Counter Media Award for Rural Journalism in 2000 . The National Foundation for India Fellowship in 2004. Counter Media Award is funded by royalties from journalist P. Sainath's book Everyone Loves a Good Drought, Is meant for rural journalists whose (often outstanding) work gets ignored or even appropriated by the larger press at the State or national level in India. In 2013, she was conferred the Ellen L. Lutz Indigenous Rights Award instituted by Cultural Survival, an international NGO.
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