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 …
THE Union environment and forests ministry is approving use of forestland for industrial and other infrastructure projects in violation of its own executive orders and provisions of the Forests Rights Act (FRA) of 2006. Scrutiny of project clearance processes undertaken by forest rights groups indicates the no rms are violated …
THOUGH three years have passed since the Forest Rights Act came into force, most villages in Maharashtra are still fighting for rights to manage their forests under the law. Over 100 villagers and activists from different districts of Maharashtra who gathered in Pune on June 12 said bureaucracy is obstructing …
New Delhi: A sharp division has surfaced in the Planning Commission over the proposed Rs 14,000 crore Integrated Action Plan (IAP) for 35 Naxal-affected districts. The comprehensive package is expected to focus on ensuring tribals
The notification of Mudumalai Sanctuary in Tamil Nadu as a tiger reserve in 2007 has resulted in a contested politics between activists, non-governmental organisations and conservationists with regard to the future of protected area management. This paper presents an account of how these actors positioned themselves around not only the …
Priyadarshi Siddhanta Differences have surfaced within the Planning Commission on the proposed Rs 13,742 crore Integrated Action Plan (IAP) for 35 Naxalite-affected districts, with its key officials differing on its contours. So much so that Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia has ordered a complete re-drafting of the IAP document, …
Armed with integrated action plans for 35 Naxalite-affected districts in nine states, the Planning Commission is all set to approach the Union Cabinet for a proposed outlay of Rs 13,742 crore to wean away the tribals from sympathising with the Maoists through comprehensive infrastructure and economic development as well as …
Vedanta Aluminium is bracing itself for a fresh round of trouble. Their plans to mine bauxite from the Niyamgiri hills in the Kalahandi district of Orissa have reached a fresh set back with the ministry of environment & forests (MoEF) having set up a four member committee headed by National …
NEW DELHI: Dongria Kondhs of Lanjigarh in Orissa may have received some respite, with the government setting up yet another committee to reconsider how a proposed Vedanta mine in the area could affect the tribe. On Wednesday, the Environment and Forests Ministry constituted the four-member committee to make recommendations on …
The status report on implementation of the Scheduled tribes and other traditional forest dwellers act, 2006 by the states. Provides details of claims received, titles distributed and the extent of forest land for which titles distributed (individual and community) for major states till 30th June 2010. Status report on implementation …
This recent paper examines Forest Rights Act 2006 to analyse whether its detailed provisions are likely to fulfil its ambitious mandate. It discusses the complementary institutional reform required for strengthening the law’s provisions & the limited attention this has so far received. Institutions relating to forest management in India have …
Sankar Ray The Posco Pratirodha Sangram Samiti-led offensive is something new and different from what is seen in Chhattisgarh Patnaik has been apparently unnerved by an `update' on the website of the Union ministry of environment and forests. It hints at possible disapproval of the transfer of 1,253 hectares of …
FOUR months pregnant Lalita Devi coiled herself to escape the blows of heavy sticks. She was bewildered why each blow was directed at her belly. Men in khaki were ruthless till she fell unconscious. After five hours she found herself outside the Kone police station. “I was lying in a …
Raipur: The maize he grew on the small zig-zagged shaped patch of forest land was the only food for his family. But in 1998, the forest department picked up Bir Singh Markam, and along with 75 other men in his village in Bastar, and jailed him for illegally occupying forest …
Public protests against posco’s steel plant in Jagatsinghpur district of Orissa turned violent on May 15 when police lathi- charged people sitting on dharna and fired rubber bullets at them. Over 100 persons were injured. The protesters had been blocking the road to the South Korean company’s steel plant site …
June 13: The tiger habitat in Kawal wildlife sanctuary in Adilabad is facing grave danger due to unabated felling of trees. There are just a few tigers and panthers here, but wild life experts are doubtful about them if their habitat is destroyed. The wildlife activist, Mr Devidas Manghnani, said,
Amruta Byatnal PUNE: A resident of Yavatmal in Maharashtra is asked to give proof of birth for three generations in his family for him to get access to land under the Scheduled Tribes and other Traditional Forest Dwellers Recognition of Forest Rights Act (FRA) 2006. But for the people in …
