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 …
Expressing satisfaction over the role of forest committee constituted to conserve the forest, Chief Minister Digvijay Singh said that the government has decided to give 20 per cent share of production of bamboo and 10 per cent share of sagon to the committee members so that they could render their …
The Forest Department claimed that approximately 50,000 hectares of area has been afforested under the Punjab Afforestation Project so far in all the 17 districts of the state with the liberal assistance from the Japan Bank for International Cooperation.
The Maharashtra Forest Department has sought addition time from the Supreme Court for removing encroachments on forest land, in view of the hardships the eviction will cause encroachers, 73000 of whom are tribals.
The forest ranger, Lumding has come under fire from the Block Congress (I) authority in particular and a section of propel including the environmentalists in general for his alleged corrupt practices.
Mr. M D Sharma, Special judge issued summonses to former Himachal Chief Minister, Virbhadra Singh former Forest Secretary O.P. Yadav, and two others besides Sagar Katha Udyog under various sections of the Prevention of Corruption Act and the IPC in the khair wood allotment case.
All roads in Uttaranchal seemingly lead to the picturesque Hemkund Sahib.But for Sikh community, the 20-km long arduous trek from Govindghat to Hemkund Sahib, one of their religious shrines, is becoming more and more tough, thanks to stringent forest laws that do not allow to fulfill their long-cherished demand of …
The Supreme Court has ordered the Karnataka State Governments to evict people who have encroached upon a whopping 12.5 lakh hectares of forest land in states including Karnataka, Assam, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Orissa, West Bengal, and Kerala.The earlier deadline was September 30,2002.It has now been extended to May 31, 2003.In …
The Supreme Court on Wednesday director the Karnataka Government to evict all the 147 persons, including Legislative Council Chairman B L Shankar, who have together appropriated 611 acres of land in the Tatkola reserve forests of Mudigere taluk in Chikmagalur district.
Living up to its reputation, the Panipat Refinery of Indian Oil Corporation has added another feather to its cap by developing a 500 acre green belt and ecological park around the refinery.
Fellowships would be awarded for conducting research works in important areas of forestry like Genetics, Plant improvement, Bio diversity, Social Economics, botany, Ecology etc. This was decided at a meeting of the Board of Directors for Forest Research Institute.
The Himachal Pradesh high Court in an interim order stayed the directions issued by the Forest Department whereby, it had taken away the Ghasni rights of the residents of Dharni village from the taxy Ghasni. Petitioners had alleged that they had a right to cut grass from the taxy Ghasni …
The Supreme Court has held that royalty on forest regeneration or replacement cost because forests are no long naturally renewable resources. The court passed the ruling while dismissing appeals of Rayalaseema Paper Mills and Bhadrachalam Paper Boards Ltd. challenging the finalisation of royalty on bamboo and hardwood supplied to the …
THE NEW FORESTERS . Sushil Saigal, Hema Arora and SS Rizvi . March . 2002 The new role of private enterprise in the Indian forestry sector, that's essentially what this book talks about. In the last decade after economic liberalisation and following the national forest policy of 1988, the forestry …
The forest area of Delhi during the last three years has increased by 12 square kilometres. In 1999 the forest area was 88 square kilometres and now it has increased to 100 square kilometres. This was declared by Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, in an anti-cracker rally organized by Lawrence Convent …
The temple city of Bhubaneswar, Orissa once covered with dense forest is gradually turning into a concrete jungle with fast urbanisation. The tall claim of the Government to provide the city with adequate green cover to compensate the loss caused by the devastating super cyclone of 1999, has remained a …
Shiv Sena activists staged a demonstration opposite the passport office at Worli to protest against the felling of two gulmohar trees. The trees were allegedly cut by a contractor who wanted clearer public view of his hoarding. Ashwin Shetty, whose company had sponsored several trees in the area, including the …
Thanongdeth is a hydrologist who works for the Mekong River Commission. The commission was established by the governments of Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam in 1995 - at the end of a long period of conflict in the region - to help manage the river that flows for 4,880 kilometers …
Uttaranchal Governor S S Barnala and the State forest department appear to be on the collision course over the former's insistence that a road should be constructed to facilitate easy travelling for pilgrims to Hemkunt Sahib. Under the existing proposal, the construction of the road would entail chopping up of …
Notwithstanding a convenient hideout for the naxalites, Jharkhand's rich forest resources have made the extremist-infested State a paradise for exploiters.Jharkhand, the forest land, as the name meas, possesses the glory of rich bio-diversity in its large notified forest corridor of 23.6 thousand square km out of its 79.71 thousand sq. …
The Centre is contemplating changes to the Pesticide Act of 1971 with a view to protecting farmers from being cheated by manufactures of spurious pesticides in the name of 'plant protection'.
