<p>Order of the Supreme Court in the matter of Arulmigu Meenakshi Sundareshwar Devasthanam Vs State of Tamil Nadu & Others dated 18/03/2024.</p> <p>The matter related to 3009.84 acres of land situated
The Union environment ministry seems to have found a way to persuade states to make amends for encroachment of forest lands over three decades, beginning 1950. At the ministry's parliamentary
The Orissa chief minister today said the newly-introduced Minor Forest Produce Policy Resolution would be amended to bring tree-borne oil-seeds under gram panchayat's control. The decision was taken
Faced with embarrassment over its failure to complete the houses for the cyclone-affected people under the Indira Awas Yojna(IAY) before the monsoon due to shortage of building materials including
The Forest Department had spent Rs 2.34 crores for planting seedlings, constructing check dams, percolation pnds, bore wells and taking up drainage works, during 1999-2000, under the Tamil Nadu
"AAMWALA', a village in the foothills of the Himalayas, has set an example in conservation. So dedicated are the villagers to their forests that anyone found felling trees is heavily fined by the
States still following old guidelines: Though the Ministry of Environment & forest (MoEF) took a decade to revise guidelines on Joint Forest Management (JFM) as part of its review of the forest
Planning Commission has suggested to the finance ministry's levy of at least 20 per cent import duty on timber and pulp, saying the income earned from such a move could be used for creating the
Madhya Pradesh Forests Minister Ratnesh Soloman has been accused of colluding with the timber mafia in the illegal felling of trees in Damoh district of Bundelkhand region over the past several
Despite claims by the state forest department, regeneration of mangroves in denuded patches has apparently failed. Even as afforestation plans are afoot by the social forestry wing of the Rajnagar
Non-wood forest produce (NWFP) holds immense potential for income generation among communities in and around forests, environment and forests minister T R Baalu said
