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.

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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