For generations, the Zudpi lands have served as grazing ground for feeding livestock, threshing sites, cremation grounds, and community spaces for Adivasi communities but their ambiguous legal status has made them a flashpoint of conflict.

Documents show the National Tiger Conservation Authority was more concerned with eco-tourism in tiger reserves than the land rights of tens of thousands of tribals.

India is among other oil, gas and petrochemical-producing countries, such as Saudi Arabia, Iran and China, that are attempting to dilute provisions and mechanisms that would deal with the entire life cycle of plastics.