Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item Titled "Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s Golconda Fort Cries for attention appearing in ‘The Siasat Daily’ dated 25 May 2025". The application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled “Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s …
PARADIP: Giving the battle cry, Posco Pratirodha Sangram Samiti (PPSS) today organised a 'Maha Samelani' at Dhinkia to intensify antiPosco stir. Antiland acquisition leaders from the State and outside congregated in the village and vowed to step up the agitation till the shifting of the steel project. They also burnt …
BHUBANESWAR: The Union Environment Ministry has formed a fresh panel to look into the alleged violation of forest rights of tribals in Niyamgiri hills, where it has held up clearance to the bauxite mining project of Vedanta Resources. The Ministry, in a notification on Tuesday, announced a four-member panel to …
Lucknow: The National Forest Rights Act Committee (NFRAC) formed jointly by the Union ministry of environment and forest and Union ministry of tribal affairs to review implementation of the Forest Rights Act (FRA) will visit west UP on May 31. The 19-member committee headed by NC Saxena and comprising experts …
PARADIP: The much-awaited Posco survey, stalled for two years, got underway at Nuagaon and Gadkujang panchayats after obtaining clearance from the United Action Committee, a pro-Posco outfit. After a series of discussions among the district administration, the affected villagers and UAC members failed to elicit good response, MLA Prasant Muduli …
NEW DELHI: Even as violence has broken out in Jagatsinghpur district of Orissa, the only thing preventing the Orissa government from securing the 1,253.225 hectares of forest land for Posco's integrated steel plant, ironically, is the Forest Rights Act -- a legislation that many conservationists opposed initially and now find …
KOCHI: Forests Minister Benoy Viswom has directed Forest officials to take necessary steps possible under the Forests Act to ensure basic facilities like drinking water, electricity and roads for tribals in the state. In an oral instruction given to Chief Wildlife Warden K K Sreevasthava, the Minister said the report …
MUKESH RANJAN NEW DELHI Even as Andhra Pradesh has performed well in implementing the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGREGS) and in managing the state finances, the Planning Commission has found that in case of rural roads and the Forests Right Act, the state has failed to live …
Hyderabad, Dec. 4: The Obulapuram Mining Company, owned by Mr Gali Janardhan Reddy, tourism minister of Karnataka, and Anantapur Mining Corporation, owned by his wife on Friday approached the Andhra Pradesh High Court against the letters written by the ministry of environment and forests, Government of India. The ministry sent …
AGARTALA, Nov 25: The Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act has been proving to be a hurdle in the implementation of Tripura JICA project, an externally aided project for poverty alleviation of forest-dependent people of the State. According to reports, the Japan International Cooperation …
Agartala: The Tripura government has demanded funding for land utilisation projects for more than 84,000 tribal families who got land deed under the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act in the state. Talking to newpersons here last week, Tripura Tribal Welfare Minister Aghore Debbarma …
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Forest Minister Benoy Viswom said here on Thursday that the State government was trying to solve a two-decade-old problem of farmers by amending the Kerala Forest (Vesting and Management of Ecologically Fragile Lands) Act. In an article released for publication, the Minister said the amendment Bill, passed by the …
Acting firm on erring mines, the Goa State Pollution Control Board has asked the Forest Department to furnish information on another 74 mines whether these have obtained necessary forest and wildlife clearances as mentioned in the Forest Conservation Act. These 74 are apart from the 13 mines which have been …
Tribal inhabitants and forest-dwellers today pressed for their forest rights through a huge rally in the city. The Campaign for Survival and Dignity, a national forum for the tribals and forest-dwellers, protested non-implementation of Forest Rights Act by taking out a rally which saw participation of hundreds of tribals from …
