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Forests, People and Wildlife

• Niyamgiri and the Forest Rights Act

  <p><span>The rejection of forest clearance for mining Niyamgiri is indeed a historic decision.

  • 08/09/2010

  • • Forests
    • Mining
    • Aluminium Industry
    • Bauxite
    • Public Interest Litigation (PIL)
    • Forest Act 1980
    • Forest Rights Act 2006
    • Tribals
    • Rehabilitation
    • Supreme Court
    • Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF)
    • Orissa (Odisha)
    • Vedanta Aluminium
    • Central Empowered Committee (CEC)
    • Dongria Kondh

• Indias Green India Mission extending bureaucratic control in the name of decentralization?

  <p>One of the eight Missions under India's National Action Plan on Climate Change, the <a href="http://moef.nic.in/downloads/public-information/GIM-Report-PMCCC.pdf"><strong>revised National Mission for a Green India (GIM for short)</strong></a> professes responding to climate change by a combination of adaptation and mitigation measures, which would help:</p>

  • 27/11/2010

  • • Land Use
    • Forest Resources
    • Forest Rights Act 2006
    • Joint Forest Management (JFM)
    • Climate Change
    • Climate Mitigation
    • Tribals
    • India