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Conflicts of Banni community The Banni community is the community which is found in Kutch district, Gujarat. It is an arid grass land. Their fight is for preserving their rights over the Banni grassland, their traditional livelihoods and their indigenous cattle. The grassland was handed over to Maldharis by the king Maharao, only on the condition that no agriculture practice would be done on that land and that common land would never be converted into a private property. The conflict of Banni community is with the aim to preserve their area. They don't want any other activity to be practiced in that area. It so happened that some of the private chemical got the permit to set up their industries in the nearby areas of Banni which would ultimately be dangerous for the Banni grassland. If these industries set up near this grass land then it would be a great threat to the flora and fauna present there. This would ultimately spoil the environmental conditions in that area. There was also an attempt of gradually taking away the rights of the land by the industries. The settlement of the industries would have a great impact on health of the people. As the chemical industries would emit harmful substances in the air which would increase the pollution in the environment and further harm the overall health of people. There would also be loss of biodiversity, crop damage, lowering the quality of water and loss of landscape.

Protests There were protests held by the community people against the revenue department and forest department. The protests was of medium intensity. The groups that participated in the protest were pastoralists, women, national NGO's, Maldhari traditional community and local scientists/ professionals.

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