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 Panchayats (Extension to the Scheduled Areas) Act, 1996 and the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers Act of 2006 offer a great opportunity to provide equitable governance in tribal-dominated backward areas. But these laws are skeletons and need the flesh and sinews of operational rules and guidelines, removal …
Oct. 6: Stating that only tribals had mining rights in Agency areas, the Araku MP, Mr V. Kishore Chandra Deo, observed that no body else had the right to enjoy this particular gift of nature. Talking to members of the media here on Wednesday, he said,
Rajat Guha, Nistula Hebbar New Delhi: The Forest Rights Act gave them land use rights and mandated that their consent be obtained before acquiring forest land, but it still did not ring in ownership rights for tribal populations. Now, the Prime Minister
Report of the Meena Gupta committee constituted to investigate into the proposal submitted by POSCO India Pvt. Limited for establishment of an Integrated Steel Plant and Captive Port in Jagatsinghpur District, Orissa.
THE forest departments of Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat are forcibly evicting tribals from forestland. Around 50 huts of the Korku community in Madhya Pradesh were demolished on August 29. On July 30, forest guards assaulted tribals of the Kunbi community for cultivating in forestland in Dang district in Gujarat. The …
ON August 24, Jairam Ramesh, Union Minister of State for Environment and Forests, uploaded on the Ministry's website the text of his detailed decision rejecting the application from Vedanta Resources for forest clearance to start bauxite mining in Orissa's Niyamgiri hills. The decision is a rare instance of how the …
ITANAGAR, Sept 20: The implementation of Forest Rights Act 2006 in Arunachal Pradesh witnessed mixed responses from various stakeholders attending the second phase of the public consultation at Banquet Hall here today. Majority of the concerned voices negated the FRA in its present form and called for its modification with …
AMIT AGNIHOTRI EW DELH Concerned over lack of development in the tribal areas, which has led to the rise of Left-Wing extremism (LWE), the Sonia Gandhi-led National Advisory Council will review the government
The Communist Party of India (CPI) has asked the State government to issue a new order to enable tribals living in the hills own land as per the provisions of Indian Forest Rights Act 2006. In a statement, CPI State secretary D. Pandian said the tribals were suffering without house
Few committees have been as forthright as the N C Saxena Committee on the violation of the Forest Rights Act (FRA) by the very authorities which are charged with upholding them—the state governments. In its report on the controversial project to mine for bauxite in the Niyamgiri Hills, the four …
FOR months there has been speculation in Delhi about an imminent clampdown on metals giant Vedanta's bauxite mining operations in Orissa. However, when the final forest clearance for Vedanta's proposal to mine bauxite in the Niyamgiri Hills was rejected by the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) on August …
SEVERAL people living in Patyachapaani, a tribal hamlet inside Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP) in suburban Mumbai, have been mauled by leopards in recent years. But they do not want to shift and are protesting the forest department's plan to relocate them in the forest fringe. About three months ago, …
The Forest Rights Act of 2006—also known as the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act—came after considerable and bitter opposition from conservation groups. They said the Act, which would grant land rights to tribals and other forest dwellers, would destroy forests and wipe out …
SRINAGAR, Sept 12: Demanding rights on forest land in the State, the Gujjars today said the benefits available under the Forest Rights Act, 2006 to the Scheduled Tribes (ST) in the country be extended to Jammu and Kashmir. In a statement here, the secretary of the Tribal Research and Cultural …
ITANAGAR, Sept 12: A team of the Joint Review Committee of the Forest Rights Act (FRA) constituted by the Ministries of Tribal Affairs and Environment & Forests will be visiting Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Sikkim and North Bengal from September 19 to 25 next. In Arunachal the team will conduct public …
Will Polavaram be another ecocide zone? Not if we apply the Vedanta logic to it. The Polavaram dam across the river Godavari has been a dream project for several governments in Andhra Pradesh. Most of them had to let it stay at that
The rejection of forest clearance for mining Niyamgiri is indeed a historic decision. It has vindicated the historical injustice done, in this case to Dongaria and Kutia Kondh tribal communities, due to the non-recognition of their forest rights on ancestral lands and their habitat in the consolidation of state forests …
