Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Are missing palm trees causing more lighting deaths in Bihar appearing in ‘The Times of India’ dated 29.05.2025". The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Are missing palm trees causing …
MUMBAI: Union minister Jairam Ramesh's order notwithstanding, the state forest department is unwilling to transfer the rights over harvesting bamboos to forest dwellers. The department currently holds the right to harvest bamboo in the state. Its contention is that allowing villagers to cut bamboo will affect the sustainability of the …
PANJIM, Crime Branch sleuths investigating the illegal mining scam allegedly involving NCP leader Jitendra Deshprabhu and top bureaucrats, have sought assistance from mining experts to locate the illegal mining operation. Sources said that the investigating team has approached Mines department and local Panchayat office for assistance in the probe.
Legal Awareness Programme on Forest Acts held in Udhagamandalam Udhagamandlam: The judiciary will always protect the environment of the Nilgiris, said the Chief Justice of the Madras High Court, M. Yousuf Iqbal here on Tuesday. He was presiding over a Legal Awareness Programme on Forest Acts for field level forest …
Jairam Ramesh It is for the government of Orissa to meet the legal rules if the mammoth Posco steel project is to be cleared by him, said Union environment minister Jairam Ramesh. A day ahead of a meeting with Orisa chief minister Naveen Patnaik, who reiterated that project clearance is …
Despite the Union Government implementing the Tribal Forest Rights Act, still the tribal living near the reserve and wildlife sanctuaries are left in the lurch. The tribals are forced to move out of their place in search of work and a livelihood. Marapachi (Passe) The article 3 (c) of chapter …
Making further concessions for creating public infrastructure in Naxalite areas, the government on Thursday ordered that projects like building of roads, schools or hospitals on forest land would not require clearance under the Forest Conservation Act, 1980 as long as the total forest land to be diverted is not more …
After a long battle with the Forest Department, this village in a remote, Naxal-affected part of the state on Thursday became the first village in the country to become eligible to own, cut, use and sell bamboo
Minister for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh may have conducted public consultations on Bt brinjal, but his ministry has conceived an apparently far-reaching amendment to the Indian Forest Act (IFA) without consulting the biggest stakeholders
A day after Union Environment and Forests Minister Jairam Ramesh put the forest clearance for the Rs 54,000- crore POSCO steel project on hold, the state government said it would closely examine the MoEF order before taking any further action. On Thursday, Ramesh had held back forest clearance, asking the …
Having been tossed between the State and the Centre for the past few months, the question of a forest clearance for Posco project is in the Orissa government's court once again. On Thursday, Union Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh delayed a final decision on the clearance once again, telling the State …
Orissa will send a letter to the Union Environment Ministry on Tuesday assuring that no Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (OTFD) or tribals were living at the Posco project site for at least 75 years. However, the MoEF nod may take some time with people having complained to Jairam Ramesh that …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. Letter by Shri Jairam Ramesh to …
The Ministry of Forest and Soil Conservation (MoFSC) has recently passed a proposal and drafted an amendment bill to revise the Forest Act 1993. This Act provided the legal foundation for community forestry programme in Nepal during the past two decades. However, the MoFSC has justified its recent move for …
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 …
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. The …
