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 …
This paper considers the relationship between the historical emergence of colonial forestry institutions in forest areas of Andhra Pradesh and the chronic poverty of people living there. Between 5-15 million of Andhra
It has been the continued endeavour of the Ministry of Environment and Forests to strengthen the policy and regulatory frameworks that govern the environment and forests of the country. Over the last one year, various measures, both institutional and legislative, have been initiated or given a renewed impetus. Numerous initiatives …
All those tribals who come under Forest Rights Act must be identified and provided with all the facilities, said Deputy Commissioner K H Ashwathanarayana Gowda. Speaking at the district-level forest rights committee meeting in Madikeri on Monday, he said
Mendha lekha in Gadchiroli district of Maharashtra was one of the first two villages in India to claim community ownership over its forests last December. Six months after they got their forest titles, the tribal villagers find bureaucratic hurdles are hampering their powers under the Forest Rights Act of 2006. …
Though Scheduled Tribes and Other Forest Dwellers Act 2006 came into existence two to three years ago, the availability of basic facilities for the tribals living in Kodagu are still a mirage. A view of Makutta tribal colony. dh photosWithout basic facilities, the tribals in haadi are living in a …
Development is yet to reach the Adivasis living in the Scheduled Tribe colony here, along the Kodagu-Kerala border, as they do not have access to basic amenities such as drinking water, proper shelter and food.
Sujay Mehdudia NEW DELHI: The Communist Party of India (CPI) on Sunday urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to review the mega steel project awarded to South Korean steel giant Posco in Orissa and urged him to immediately withdraw the environmental clearance accorded to the project in light of the continued …
The Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, (Forest Rights Act or just FRA hereafter), enacted by the Indian Parliament in 2006, did not emerge from unproblematic and consensual deliberations. Rather the struggle to pass the act, and to keep the key elements intact, was …
Over the past six years or so, the Congress seems to be undergoing change both with regard to the balance of power within the organization and its ideological orientation. It is fashionable to take the Gandhi family to the cleaners because of its dynastic grip on power. But it must …
RASHME SEHGAL NEW DELHI A group of five civil servants who received the Prime Minister award for excellence in civil administration from Madhya Pradesh (2009-10) could well provide states like Chattisgarh and Jharkhand an answer on how to tackle the problem of Naxalism. Madhya Pradesh had one of the poorest …
THE environment ministry has reconstituted the joint committee set up with the ministry of tribal affairs to assess the impact of Forest Rights Act on sustainable management of forest resources. Initially constituted in February, the joint committee and its terms of reference had to be reworked given protests by civil …
The government has constituted a joint committee of the ministries of Environment & forest and Tribal affairs to study the implementation of the Forest Right Act, 2006 and suggest necessary policy changes needed in the future management of the forestry sector. The committee aims to define the role of panchayati …
The Decentralisation Community of Solution Exchange, an initiative of the United Nations in India, provides a platform for increasing our understanding of local governance-both rural and urban-through knowledge sharing and collaboration.
Gokul Chandrasekar/ENS 1,300 CASES OF TRANSFER TO INDUSTRIES AFTER IMPLEMENTATION OF FOREST ACT, CLAIMS TRIBAL RIGHTS ACTIVIST INDIA has witnessed 1,300 cases of diversion of forestland for industrial purpose since the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006 came into force says eminent tribal …
A tribal village inside the Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve in Maharashtra has decided to sue forest authorities for mining sand and gravel from their community-owned (nistaar) land. On January 26, the villagers of Kolsa held a gram sabha meeting where they passed a resolution to this effect. This was after …
South korean steel major posco has announced a rehabilitation package for people using the forestland diverted for its proposed steel plant in Jagatsinghpur district of Orissa through Oriya newspapers. Activists led by the posco Pratirodh Sangram Samiti (ppss) made a bonfire of the printed copies of the rehabilitation package on …
The Integrated Tribal Development Project department has decided to distribute title deeds to forest dwellers under Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006 by September. Speaking to Deccan Herald, ITDP Co-ordinator Lakshman J Ganti said about 2,262 forest dwellers have filed their claim for …
