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 …
On 27th April 2011, Maharashtra will rewrite history as Mendha Lekha will become the first village in India to exercise its community right to harvest bamboo under the Forest Rights Act (FRA). To know more click on the following URL: http://www.cseindia.org/content/27th-april-maharashtra-will-rewrite-history-you-are-invited-stand-witness See Also An update as on April 26, 2011 …
Red Letter Day for bamboo On April 27, Maharashtra will rewrite history. On that day, bamboo, a hugely contested product of India’s forests, will attain its liberation and Mendha Lekha in Maharashtra’s Gadchiroli Latest updates from Mendha Lekha April 26: In response to forest department's opposition to giving community rights …
In 2008, the village applied for the right over 18 sq km of village forest area under the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006 Read full story: Give us 18 sq km In 2009, Mendha Lekha alongwith Marda village became the first villages …
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April 26 In response to forest department's opposition to giving community rights to freely sell, harvest and transport bamboo, Union environment minister Jairam Ramesh has said that Minor Forest Produce is a ownership right vested by Parliament under Forest Rights Act and all state authorities are obliged to respect this …
The Environment Ministry is moving ahead with its efforts to ensure a minimum support price for minor forest produce such as bamboo and tendu leaves. Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh has reiterated his ministry
Govt accuses Posco Pratirodh Sangram Samiti of forgery in Palli Sabha resolutions The Orissa government has disputed claims of the Posco Pratirodh Sangram Samiti that the Palli Sabha (panchayats) of Dhinkia and Gobindpur, which come under the proposed Posco steel plant project, had passed resolutions on February 5 and 6, …
Jagatsinghpur: The anti-Posco activists under the banner of Posco Pratirodha Sangram Samiti (PPSS) on Thursday decided to congregate at a meeting at Patanahat on Friday in protest against the assurance report submitted by the Odisha government on Wednesday to the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF). In the protest meeting …
BHUBANESWAR: It took an e-mail sent by the anti-Posco group to make Union Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh keep the project clearance issue in abeyance. Three days after the fresh complaint by PPSS (Posco Pratirodh Sangram Samiti) and a day after the State Government
South Korean steelmaker Posco will have to wait a while longer before it can embark on its . 54,000-crore integrated steel plant and port project in Odisha. The environment ministry has not accepted the assurance given by the state government that there were no other traditional forest dwellers or tribals …
This MoEF directive held back forest clearance to the POSCO project in Orissa. It has rejected state government’s assurance that there are no tribals in the area, where the 52,000 crore rupee steel-cum-captive power plant is to come up. On January 31st 2011, Shri Jairam Ramesh had issued a "speaking …
The Union Ministry of Environment and Forests has asked states to treat bamboo as a minor forest produce (MFP). Environment minister Jairam Ramesh directed the states to ask their forest departments to follow this categorisation in a letter dated March 21. He also asked the states to respect the rights …
The Orissa government on Wednesday sent a letter to the Union ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) assuring that no tribals and other traditional forest dwellers (OTFDs) were living at the proposed Posco project site for at least 75 years. On the other hand, the Posco Pratirodh Sangram Samiti (PPSS), …
SILENCING PROTEST? New Delhi: The Orissa government on Wednesday dismissed the resolutions of the villages claiming rights over the land it wants to give to the Posco Integrated Steel Plant. Ignoring the resolutions of the two villages, Dhinkia and Govindpur, the Orissa government has sent an
If you believe the financial press, one of the biggest environmental stories this past year has been the question of "go" and "no go" areas for coal mining. It looks like a typical clash between the "green lobby" represented by the Environment Ministry (supported by environmental NGOs) and the so-called …
Bhubaneswar: Maintaining its earlier stand that there was no tribal inhabitant or traditional forest dwellers in the villages demarcated for Posco's mega steel plant near Paradip, the Odisha government on Sunday said that it was likely to submit its assurance report to the Centre next week. Chief secretary Bijay Kumar …
The Odisha state government has said that it will submit its assurance that there are no tribals or traditional forest dwellers in Posco project area this week. Even as it is finalising the assurance report, villagers in the area, particularly the villages of Dhinkia and Gobindpur are in the process …
LUCKNOW: Surma and Golbojhi became first tribal villages in the country, which are situated in any national park, to get benefit of the Forest Rights Act (FRA) 2006. Located in the core zone of the Dudhwa National Park and tiger reserve, near the Indo-Nepal border in Palia block of Lakhimpur …
