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High court overruled
The Supreme Court has stayed a decision of the Himachal Pradesh High Court permitting a family to cut hundreds of deodar and kail trees on their private forest land. A bench comprising Justice Y K Sabharwal and Justice H K Sema granted the stay in response to the Himachal government's …
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• India has 16,000 recorded plant species. About 3,000 of these yield minor forest produce (MFP).
• Nearly 500 million people living in and around forests in India depend on MFP for sustenance and as a supplement to their income
• Studies in Orissa, Madhya Pradesh, …
• Nearly 500 million people living in and around forests in India depend on MFP for sustenance and as a supplement to their income
• Studies in Orissa, Madhya Pradesh, …
Another world is possible
optimism is a great friend but a bad guide. The Asian Social Forum (asf) meeting in Hyderabad, India, deliberately avoided this truism while proclaiming grandly: "Another world is possible". Another world is definitely possible. In fact it exists. The numerous communities that gathered there, with their own stories …
Shallow scheme
on december 25, 2002, Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee unveiled an ambitious scheme to provide drinking water to all villages in the country by April 2004. The project, called
Up in smoke
In 1985, the Union ministry of non-conventional energy sources (mnes) introduced improved chulhas (fuelwood-based cooking stoves) to primarily conserve forests, reduce pressure on rural women who collect fuelwood and to protect their health against indoor air pollution. Called the National Programme on Improved Chulhas (npic), it …
Poplar demand
trees are news in Himachal Pradesh (hp). While 200 people hauled the state government to court demanding a fair price for trees grown on their land, hp chief minister (cm) P K Dhumal sought compensation from the Union government for a
On thin ice
South Asia's only open-air natural ice skating rink in Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, now lies in a decrepit state, with environmental degradation and neglect threatening its very existence.
"The most serious environmental threat to the rink is the adjoining bus station. Every day, scores of buses emit noxious fumes that not …
"The most serious environmental threat to the rink is the adjoining bus station. Every day, scores of buses emit noxious fumes that not …
Whitewashed by nature
Coke and Pepsi advertisements painted on rocks along the 56-kilometre stretch from Manali to Rohtang Pass will not be scraped for a little while longer. Instead, a sheet of ice will cover the boulders. The drive to remove the ads of the soft drink multinational giants and other leading Indian …
Ex Chief Minister in the dock
People have for long been usurped of their rights over forests by industrialists, the timber mafia and corrupt officials. One such instance of misuse of power is the controversial khair wood allotment case in Himachal Pradesh (HP). Shimla Special Judge M D Sharma has issued summons to former HP chief …
Of plants and bees
Of late, even the largest honey-producing habitat in the Indian sub-continent