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'''Dayamani Barla''' is a [[adivasi|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.<ref name=BBC>{{cite news|url= http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7610127.stm |title=Steely resolve:Dayamani Barla|year=2008|publisher=[[BBC]]|accessdate=14 October 2008|first=Moushumi|last=Basu}}</ref> She unsuccessfully ran from the [[Khunti (Lok Sabha constituency)|Khunti Lok Sabha Constituency]], Jharkhand in the [[2014 Indian general election|2014 Lok Sabha elections]] as an [[Aam Aadmi Party]] candidate.<ref>{{cite news|title=AAP introduces seven candidates in fray in Jharkhand|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ranchi/AAP-introduces-seven-candidates-in-fray-in-Jharkhand/articleshow/32886194.cms}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Kislaya|first1=Kelly|title=NOTA ahead of AAP in many seats|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/news/NOTA-ahead-of-AAP-in-many-seats/articleshow/35271476.cms|accessdate=15 December 2015|work=The Times of India|date=18 May 2014}}</ref>

==Early life==
Dayamani was born in the tribal family (also known as [[Adivasi]] in India) in Jharkhand state of eastern India. Her family belonged to the [[Munda people|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.<ref name=UCLA>{{cite web|url=http://www.international.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=85350 |title=Off India's Beaten Path |year=2008 |publisher=[[UCLA]] |accessdate=14 October 2008 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110605122343/http://www.international.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=85350 |archivedate=5 June 2011 |df=dmy }}</ref>

==Career==
Barla works in a popular [[Hindi]] newspaper [[Prabhat Khabar]] to bring attention to myriad problems facing the Munda people and other tribal communities in the Jharkhand region. She is the National President of Indian Social Action Forum [http://www.insafindia.com INSAF]. Earlier her journalistic work was supported by a small fellowship for some years by [[Association for India's Development]] (AID).<ref name=MA/> 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.<ref name=BBC/><ref name=UCLA/>

==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.<ref name=UCLA/>
[[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 {{convert|12000|acre|km2}} of land and a new power plant. According to Barla, that would displace forty tribal villages.<ref name=BBC/> Barla and her organisation ''[[Adivaasi, Moolvaasi, Astitva Raksha Manch]]'' (Forum for the protection of tribal and indigenous people's identity) – says apart from causing massive displacement, the project will destroy the forests in the area. It will also affect the water sources and ecosystems, thereby threatening the environment and the very source of sustenance for indigenous peoples, it says. Arcelor Mittal on its part says that it does not want to grab local peoples land as is willing to negotiate with all stake holders.<ref name=BBC/> But Barla counters that the subsistence tribal communities will not survive the alienation from their native land and they cannot be compensated for such a loss.<ref name=BBC/>

==Awards==
Barla won the Counter Media Award for Rural Journalism in 2000 and 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'', and 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.
<ref name=MA>{{cite web|url= http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/11/24/18463235.php
|title=Dayamani Barla: Indigenous Journalist and Activist from India|year=2007|publisher=Media Activism|accessdate=14 October 2008}}</ref> In 2013, she was conferred the Ellen L. Lutz Indigenous Rights Award instituted by Cultural Survival, an international NGO.<ref>{{cite news|url= http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/jharkhand-tribal-activist-gets-ellen-l-lutz-award/article4743299.ece/?secid=2781
|title=Jharkhand tribal activist gets Ellen L. Lutz Award|author=Anumeha Yadav|date=23 May 2013|newspaper=The Hindu|accessdate=23 May 2013}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
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*[http://data.ashanet.org/datastore/data/Chapters/Seattle/Newsletters/Newsletter-2008Q1.pdf Dayamani Barla:The voice of Jharkhand]

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