Judgment of the Supreme Court in the matter of In Re: Zudpi Jungle Lands. A batch of applications involved a peculiar issue concerning the situation prevailing in the six districts of eastern Vidarbha region namely Nagpur, Wardha, Bhandara, Gondia, Chandrapur and Gadchiroli. The issue pertains to the status of the …
Forest area around the Manma district headquarters Manma of Kalikot (Nepal) is witnessing rapid depletion since the past one year. Over one thousand families displaced by the Maoist insurgency and the security personnel are busy felling down various valuable trees from the forests, alleged locals.
Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha, Ms Sonia Gandhi has suggested that profit from the timber obtained from the forests should be given to the tribal people of the Madhya Pradesh state. She commended Gram Swaraj, Self Help Group Scheme, special recruitment drive for scheduled castes and Tribes and scheme …
The joint forest management being implemented through the Vana Samrakshana Samitis in the Andhra Pradesh was yielding encouraging results, according to District Forest Officer Nalini Mohan. Addressing a press conference, he said the joint forest management, which was intially taken up in an extent of 100 acres in the Anantapur …
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu inaugurated the multi crore Krishna water distribution scheme to tide over drinking water crisis in Mangalagiri Municipality and suggested the municipal authorities to name the scheme after former minister Dr MSS Koteshwara Rao.
Raichur district administration (Karnataka) has agreed to release water from the Ganekal balancing reservoir to save crops in the tail-end regions of the Tungabhadra Left Bank canal. This decision was taken at the Deputy Commissioner's office after a prolonged discussion was held with farmers from the tail-end areas on Thursday …
The German and United Kingdom-based NGOs Institut Fur Okologie nd Aktions Ethnologie (INFOE) and FERN, along with six other reputed European NGOs which aim to improve Eurpoean Union (EU) activities in order to achieve conservation and sustainable management of forests in respect of the rights of forest peoples, greater transparency …
For a long time, much before the construction of reservoirs, people were solely dependent on tanks and wells for drinking water. With the construction of dams and reservoirs, some ancient wells have lost their importance. Neglect by officials and citizens alike has reduced wells such as the 17th Century Nucchambali …
In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (i) of section 4 of the Forest (Conservation) Act, 1980 (69 of 1980), the Central Government hereby makes the Rules to implement provisions of that Act relating to the composition of the Committee constituted under section 3 of the Act. Section 4 …
The Sunderbans development department is eyeing timber seized by the forest department from smugglers worth about Rs 20 lakh to make much needed furniture for the schools and colleges in North and South 24 Parganas. Sunderbans minister Kanti Ganguly is expected to write a letter soon to forest minister Jogesh …
The administration also suspended a nazul inspector for dereliction of duty in the matter. The action was initiated following the inspection ordered by Bhopal district collector Anurag Jain on the 10 acre land allotted to Bhavans School in Chandanpura village in Huzoor tehsil of the district of Madhya Pradesh. The …
Environmentalists in Tumkur, Karnataka have strongly condemned the recent statements of politicians in support of regularization of forest land encroached. Head of the Green Watchers' Nature organization, Sanjay Gubbi, has demanded that encroachments and regularization of land be stopped for the time being. There was a need to analyse the …
A symposium to prevent forest fires and preservation of forest wealth was organised at Shopian today. The symposium organised by Forest department was attended by field staff of the department and a number of people living near forests. The experts aquainted the participants about the preventive measures to check forest …
The traffic police campaign against polluting vehicles on Hyderabad city roads appears to have paid dividends if one were to go by the marginal dip in pollution levels five days after the campaign was launched on January 2. Though the drop in pollution levels is not very significant, it is …
In a planned move to consolidate the elusive tribal segment and hopefully checkmate the pro-CPM Adivasi Kshema Samithy in its own strong hold over 2,000 landless tribals, led by their firebrand leaders C K Janu and M Geethanandan, are now busy clearing a 160 hectare crore area of Wayanad Wildlife …
Wild Symphony, an NGO demanded the Deputy Commissioner of Sonitpur, Assam, to check an alleged move by the Education Departmetn to provicialise 55 primary schools situated inside the Chaiduar Reserve Forest. They also demanded immediate eviction of all kinds of establishments inside the Chaiduar Reserve Forest area.
In a planned move to consolidate the elusive tribal segment - and hopefully checkmate the pro-CPM Adivasi Kshema Samithy (AKS) in its own strong hold - over 2,000 landless tribals, led by their firebrand leaders C K Janu and M Geethanandan, are now busy clearing a 160-hectre core area of …
Senior Congress leader and former Rajya Sabha member Janardhan Poojari has urged the government to bring amendments to the Forest Protection Act of 1980 and take steps to issue title deeds to the poor who have encroached upon forest lands in Karnataka.
The Madhya Pradesh Government, in this election year, is determined to encourage optimum exploitation of private forests and the State Governments latest notification of Lok Vaniki rules 2002 to facilitate the "scientific management of private forests' is obviously a step in that direction. The Chief Minister, Digvijay Singh had on …
