Srinagar, Oct 30: In an emotive address to the House on Thursday, legislator Javed Beigh lamented the loss of livelihoods of people due to the policy barring them from utilising the natural resources in their places of dwelling. He generously used idioms, phrases and poetry in his address, highlighting how the changes in the mining policy are in contravention of the rights of indigenous people on their resources.

“Post the New Mining Policy 2019, people have lost the right to even get a tub of sand from the stream that flows through their lawn. They cannot even use the soil in their own plots for their houses,” he told the house. Beigh said that people living in the vicinity of forests have been unable to use the forest produce. “They cannot use the firewood from the trees that surroundi

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