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 …
This paper analyses historical origins of forest rights deprivation and contemporary processes through which local people are seeking to restore their forest rights, taking the case of the Indian Forest Rights Act 2006 as an example to illustrate wider issues in historical institutional theory. The paper explores how the colonial …
A three-member team from the ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) on Friday visited the park in neighbouring Noida where statues of Mayawati and other Dalit leaders will be coming up The team would present its report to the ministry on the environmental impact the construction activity in the park …
With the Centre ruling out any change in the 1980 Forest Conservation Act, a prominent NGO here has sought the intervention of UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi on the issue claiming that her late husband, Rajiv Gandhi, was in favour of amending the legislation to protect the rights of tribal people. …
Sanguem MLA Vasudev Gaonkar questioned the failure of the government to implement the Tribals Forest Act in Goa. At the hearing of the Goa Assembly Ad hoc Committee on Agriculture and Forests, Gaonkar sought to know why the Act has not been demanded in the state till date. Chairman of …
The BJP government has intentionally delayed the implementation of the Forest Dwellers Act that gives land rights to the original inhabitants, alleged District Youth Congress President Sachin Meega. Talking to reporters after campainging at Mundugodu SC/ST Colony in the taluk on Thursday, he said the BJP government has delayed the …
Manas Dasgupta Even two years after the enactment of the new central act to give them ownership of the forest land they cultivate, the tribals in Gujarat have so far gained nothing. On the eve of the parliamentary elections, the tribals are asking questions about the intentions of both the …
R. Rajaram TIRUCHI: The State Government has formulated rules under the Tamil Nadu Forest Act, 1882 to encourage private owners grow more sandal trees in their lands besides laying down the procedures to be followed for felling and disposal of such trees to the government. The
Mumbai Asks district collectors to revoke permissions, inform civic body to cancel rights on such land. In a bid to preempt any more construction on private forest land, the state government has ordered all non-agriculture permissions issued on such lands to be revoked. The state Revenue and Forest Department issued …
THE Scheduled Tribes and Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006, or Forest Rights Act (FRA) in short, was heavily debated right from its inception up to its coming into force on December 31, 2007. While most of the arguments that preceded its notification focussed on the perceived …
Special Correspondent JAIPUR: Experts attending a workshop on the newly enacted Forest Rights Act here have warned the policy planners against the possible damage to environment due to expansion of human habitations into
The fear of abuse of the forest rights legislation was evident at a rally held today in the state capital. The participants complained that the state government was not only slow in the implementation of the act, but it was also avoiding the participation of the villagers in the process, …
SHILLONG: The government will soon notify rules for incorporation in the existing Meghalaya Forest Regulation Act 1973 to ban felling of trees for charcoal manufacturing, especially in West Khasi Hills, which is one of the major causes of depletion of the State forest cover. According to official sources, local industries …
DH News Service, Bangalore: In a landmark judgement, the Karnataka High Court on Thursday ordered a total ban on mining activities in forest areas. Hearing a petition by MSPL Ltd, a Hospet-based mining firm, questioning the mining lease issued by the state government to a private company on March 15, …
Publicity given for the Scheduled Tribes and other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act 2006 to educate the STs on their rights on forest land became a nuisance for the Integrated Tribal Development Agency (ITDA). ITDA organised street plays with the help of Jana Vignana Vedika cultural troops …
Jeevan Chinnappa This provides for constitution of forest rights committee, State-level committee Gram panchayats to convene gram sabhas to set up the committees In January, Manmohan told States to expedite it The process of implementation of the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Rights) Act of 2006 …
The Scheduled Tribes and other Traditional Forest Dwellers Act, 2006, aimed at recognition and protection of rights of scheduled tribes and traditional forest dwellers, will, in all likelihood be misused, negating the very objectives of the Act itself. It could result in fresh occupation of lands by forest dwellers for …
