Rajasthan Forest (Amendment) Act, 2014
An Act further to amend the Rajasthan Forest Act, 1953. This Act may be called the Rajasthan Forest (Amendment) Act, 2014.
Forest Act
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Surma, Golbhji tribals get land titles under FRA
LUCKNOW: Surma and Golbojhi became first tribal villages in the country, which are situated in any national park, to get benefit of the Forest Rights Act (FRA) 2006. Located in the core zone of the Dudhwa National Park and tiger reserve, near the Indo-Nepal border in Palia block of Lakhimpur Khiri district, the two villages are home to thousands of Tharu tribals since ages. On Friday, distri
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Orissa Forest Act amended
BHUBANESWAR: The Assembly amended the Orissa Forest Act, 1972, and raised the offence compounding ceiling to Rs 5,000, up from Rs 100. The Act empowered forest officers to compound certain offences and stipulated that no offence shall be compounded if the market value of the forest produce involved exceeded Rs 100. With market price of forest produce going up manifold over the last few years
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Ahluwalia praises use of information technology in forestry
Central Planning Commission Vice Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia appreciated the use of information technology in the forest department of Madhya Pradesh Government and asked the officials to give presentation in Delhi in this regard. Ahluwalia along with forest minister Sartaj Singh apprised himself of application of information technology in the command room of forest department.
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New laws for old: Forest rights and red-tape wrongs
It is a little known fact that in roughly a fifth of our country
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Letter by Shri Jairam Ramesh to CM of Andhra Pradesh declaring bamboo as minor forest produce
<p>In a letter sent to chief ministers of all states on March 21, environment minister Jairam Ramesh asked them to direct state forest departments to treat bamboo as minor forest produce. Read this letter sent by MoEF to the chief minister of Andhra Pradesh.</p> <p>Letter by Shri Jairam Ramesh to Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh declaring and treating bamboo as minor forest produce.</p>
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Fresh petitions from villagers come in way of Posco clearance
Bhubaneswar: The Orissa government is struggling to assure the Union environment ministry in writing that diversion of forest land for the Posco steel project will not infringe on the Forest Rights Act. Union environment minister Jairam Ramesh cleared the project on January 31 and the Naveen Patnaik government in Orissa was to send the crucial assurance by the second week of February.
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Shift of park-dwellers on Jairam meet agenda
New Delhi: The environment ministry has decided to look into how it plans to relocate thousands of people out of the 600 plus national parks and sanctuaries in the country. TOI had reported how the new guidelines issued by the environment ministry fell foul of the Forest Rights Act.
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Life Beyond Jairam
As environment ministers go, Jairam Ramesh is a breath of fresh air: he has made environment part of the economic discourse. He has brought in a measure of transparency and out-of-the-box thinking to environmental governance.
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New norms do not flout FRA, says Jairam
New Delhi: Environment minister Jairam Ramesh tied himself in knots on Monday to defend the guidelines his ministry had issued on turning national parks and sanctuaries into inviolate critical wildlife habitats, bypassing provisions of the Forest Rights Act (FRA).
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Two Orissa villages oppose Posco project
New Delhi: The Orissa government bats for it, the PMO is in favour and forests minister Jairam Ramesh has obliged, but the Rs 54,000-crore Posco project has found two difficult adversaries