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 attempts to contribute to the discussion of scaling-up the recognition of tenure rights within the efforts to reduce forest carbon emissions and to put the costs of recognizing tenure rights in a broader perspective. It is organized into threee sections: first, an examination of the role of tenure …
A comprehensive analysis of the Godavarman case instituted to address timber felling in the Nilgiri range of Tamil Nadu. Each and every order and its implications at state and national level has been analysed, to bring out not only the complexity of forest conservation in the country but also highlight …
Development in Asia faces a crucial issue: the right of indigenous peoples to build a better life while protecting their ancestral lands and cultural identity. An intimate relationship with land expressed in communal ownership has shaped and sustained these cultures over time. But now, public and private enterprises encroach upon …
Land Acquisition (Amendment) Bill, 2009: critical assessment & recommendations prepared by constituent members of SANGHARSH (since 2007), a platform of 150 people’s movements and mass organisations engaged in fighting displacement across India.
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 …
Mumbai: The implementation of the Scheduled Tribes and other forest dwellers (recognition of forest rights) Act, 2006, has been delayed in Maharastra, as the state has cleared only 4,500 cases in a year. "The state has received 2.77 lakh claims under the Act and 4,500 have received final approval since …
V Gangadharan | ENS IN keeping with the provisions of the Schedule Tribes and Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006, the State forest department is in the process of finalising a report on the Critical Wildlife Habitats (CWH) in Tamil Nadu. The Tamil Nadu government constituted a …
KRISHNAGIRI: District officials were told to ensure the rights of forest dwelling for the tribals as per the Forest Rights Act, 2006. Necessary instructions were given by Viswanath Shegonkar, Principal Secretary, Adi Dravidar and Tribals Welfare, Sivasankaran, Commissioner, Adi Dravidar Welfare and Ravindran, Tribals Welfare, after a review meeting at …
SHILLONG, Nov 19: NCP leader Purno Agitok Sangma today said that the Meghalaya Draft Mining Policy had not taken into account two important legislations introduced by the Centre to protect the interests of the indigenous people of the State. Addressing a press conference here today, Sangma reminded the MUA Government …
Debdas Thakur The tribals have survived not because of the state but in spite of it. For years, they lived in the legal twilight zone In 2002, the Centre ordered the eviction of all tribal encroachers on forest areas within five months. Forest officials burnt village after village in Madhya …
LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh is working towards implementation of the Scheduled Tribes and other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006, for empowering the tribals and other traditional forest dwellers for their occupation and habitation rights on forests. This Act empowers and encourages forest dwellers to protect, conserve and …
The government today admitted its failure in dealing with the losses suffered by tribals in land acquisition for various projects, but said one solution was that tribals must benefit from the projects for which they had been displaced. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said the government needed to improve its laws …
Vadodara: To make tribals aware of their rights and to encourage them to fight for their cause, a network of 43 NGOs, under the aegis of Adivasi Mahasabha, will work towards the complete implementation of Forest Rights Act, 2006. Social activists of the network have been running series of awareness …
At a time of when the extension of panchayati raj to the entire country is frequently cited as a major achievement of India's democracy, there are thousands of villagers who are still deprived of the coverage of panchayati raj and its numerous benefits. These villagers are called taungya settlers.
Maharashtra's efforts to enforce the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Rights) Act have brought forth many sticky issues.
They stage a novel protest wearing leaves SALEM: Thamizhaga Adivasi Amaippugalin Kootamaippu (TAAK) has demanded the immediate implementation of the Forest Rights Act 2006 in Tamil Nadu. To highlight this issue, they also staged a novel protest here on Tuesday wearing leaves. The members, mainly women, said that Tamil Nadu …
DEMAND: Tribal people staging a demonstration in Dindigul on Monday. DINDIGUL: Tribals from different villages on the Kodaikanal hill on Monday organised a demonstration here on Monday to flay a move to displace them from their land by Forest Department officials. They appealed to the government to implement the Forest …
Maharashtra is the first to recognize their rights over forests two villages in Gadchiroli district of Maharashtra have become the first in the country to win community rights over forests under the Scheduled Tribes and Other Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006. On August 15, Ramesh Bang, the …
A village killed its forest then revived it with herbal therapy Simple herbal cures can bring trees back to life. Kamleshwar Nath believes. He has been healing trees in Sonebhadra district of Uttar Pradesh for 20 years now. The task before Baba, as the 55-year-old is called, is to save …
