This report highlights the causes and consequences of land conflicts in India. It was published in February 2020 by the New Delhi-based data research agency Land Conflict Watch (LCW), with the organisation’s Thomas Worsdell and Kumar Sambhav as its authors. The report was released with the support of Oxfam India and the Rights and Research Initiative (a global coalition of organisations working on forests and related rights). The publication contains information on 703 ongoing conflicts since 2016, from 332 of India’s 733 districts. The 703 disputes documented in the report impact over 6.5 million people, cover 2.1 million hectares of land, and involve investments of over Rs. 13 lakh crores. The State is a conflicting party in 95 per cent of these, private companies or businesses are involved in 27 per cent, and three per cent are between different communities.
— source ruralindiaonline.org | Feb, 2020