The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …
Representatives of various tribes in the state on Sunday resolved that they will form an all India union and will vote for the party which promises to implement the Forest Rights Act 2006 that provides forest dwellers individual and community rights to hold and live on forest land and use …
Visakhapatnam:Encroachments in the guise of Forest Rights Act, cultivation and smuggling is shrinking forests. As much as 36.44 sq km of forest area has vanished in the state due to cultivation and illegal felling of trees within a span of one year. Andhra Pradesh forest department has completed collecting data …
Any dilution of the rules under the Forest Rights Act, 2006, as being contemplated at the highest levels of the government, could lead to adverse impact in the ongoing Supreme Court case on UPA's decision to cancel the bauxite mining rights for Vedanta in Odisha, tribal affairs minister Kishore Chandra …
After Vedanta closed its aluminum refinery at Lanjigarh in Kalahandi district of Odisha today, citing paucity of bauxite, the primary raw material to refine aluminium, all eyes are now on the Supreme Court, which will hear a petition against the ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) tomorrow. The MoEF had …
Trouble is again being caused by the inherent contradictions between the two laws – the Indian Forest Act and the Forest Rights Act (FRA) – that govern India’s forests, their produce and the people dependent on them for their livelihood. The fact that these statutes are implemented by different ministries …
This paper by Shankar Gopalakrishnan analyses case studies from different states and shows how governments & industries are subverting rights of the people to acquire common land and calls for accountable system to regulate land use. Control over land and natural resources has recently become a subject of heated debate …
This report is a compilation of research and analyses from some of the leading scholars and experts on the Indian forest sector. Their analyses take a critical look at the trends that have shaped the developments in India's forest sector over the past two decades. This report is a compilation …
Land grabbing has today become a major issue across India and a central political faultline in Indian politics. Protests, resistance and conflicts have been growing as a result of attempts by people to assert their legal and customary rights in the face of state and corporate attempts to take over …
Environment protection groups in Kinnaur have welcomed the interim order of National Green Tribunal directing the Himachal Pradesh Power Corporation not to cut trees on disputed lands and using the forest land for the non-forestry purposes. The HPPC is constructing the 120 MW Kashang Hydro Power Project in the heartland …
Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science & Technology, Environment & Forests present this two hundred and thirty first report on 'The Indian Forest (Amendment) Bill, 2012'. The Chief objective of the Bill is to modify and suitably amend Indian Forest Act, 1927 to make it relevant in the changed socio …
How can a right given under one Act be a criminal offence under another, members of a Parliamentary standing committee have asked officials from the Union environment ministry, raising concern about conflict between the Forest Rights Act (FRA), 2006, and the Indian Forest Act (IFA), 1927. The House panel on …
Chairperson of panel for STs unhappy with State’s performance Chairperson of the National Commission for Scheduled Tribes Rameshwar Oraon is displeased over the tardy implementation of the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006, by the State governments. In an exclusive interview with The …
The study, undertaken in partnership with Samarthan-Centre for Development Support, aims to understand the status of communities’ claims to forest resources and assets. It also identifies best practices and bottlenecks in implementing the Forest Right Act in 120 villages across 10 districts of Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh.
In the 14 years since the first Asia-Pacific Forestry Sector Outlook Study was completed in 1998, the region has experienced tremendous change in nearly every aspect. These changes have been particularly profound in the forestry sector, especially in the context of increasing demands and expectations of society on forests and …
Forest Advisory Panel Defies CIC Norms, Holds Meetings To Clear Projects. After cocking a snook at the National Green Tribunal (NGT), the environment ministry’s Forest Advisory Committee (FAC) has also snubbed the Central Information Commission (CIC) by holding meetings and clearing projects in violation of the panel’s orders on disclosing …
The wood panelled office in Delhi's Paryavaran Bhawan is now a 'no-go' zone. Its reigning green queen, Jayanthi Natarajan , once a daily fixture on television shows as Congress spokeswoman, presides in imperious silence. Over the last 15 months, as minister for environment and forests, she has successfully stalled every …
This report exposes the environmental damage and human rights violations against tribal and other forest dwellers in the forests of Singrauli in Madhya Pradesh, that are under threat from the Indian government’s massive coal expansion programme. The report calls for a moratorium on coal mining, highlighting the violations of constitutional …
Draft Cabinet note on NIB not sent to me, he says Infrastructure projects that come up on forest land must comply with the Forest Rights Act (FRA), Union Tribal Affairs Minister Kishore Chandra Deo has said. No land in a Fifth Schedule area should be handed over to any industry …
A task force will be set up under the Rural Development Minister to take the process forward and the first meeting will be held on October 17 Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh today met Jan Satyagraha activists and agreed to their demands for framing a National Land Reforms Policy, thus …
If the alarming rate of elephant deaths in the State has shocked the Odisha Government, it must brace for more. As the Government advocates and celebrates the Forest Rights Act (FRA), it is this legislation which is going to fell more elephants in Odisha, for their staple fodder - bamboo …
