Government told to settle forest rights in 6 months

~ Dr. R. Sanga Introduction The affinity of tribal people with forest has been aptly described by Eldwin in 1963 stating that forest is their asset in their economic life. Folklores left indelible imprints even today that the tribals belong to the forest and ...

district to sell bamboo under community forest rights ( CFR ). Now it is the turn of 18 gram sabhas that will be first in the country to sell tendupatta (leaves) under CFR . The Forest Right Act 2006 grants right of ownership, access to collect, use, sale and ...

Karat has demanded that the Union and the State governments recognize the rights of forest dwellers. Speaking to the media after inaugurating a two-day workshop for tribals here, Karat asked the Tamil Nadu government to make the issuing of issue ...

Endengilum kittiyo, saare? (did you get anything, sir?) 18-year-old Suresh K. asked section forest officer Lavakumar E.R.The teenagers grandmother, Nenji, stifles a laugh, proud at...

A report prepared by the PMO in December 2012 had recommended that the rights of gram sabhas under the Forest Rights Act to give prior consent to projects should be watered down to operate only in cases of exception.

Tripura ranked top in the implementation of Forest Right Act in the country in 2012, the state assembly was informed today.

Tribals from Chhattisgarh lead a march to Jantar Mantar by marginalized and landless poor from more than 17 states, to give an ultimatum to the Central Government and submit a memorandum to Prime Minister in New Delhi. A file photo: V.V.Krishnan The Hindu ...

Vedanta Group's Bauxite Mining Project in Niyamgiri hills of Odisha would remain stalled as the Supreme Court on Thursday directed that clearance to the venture would be subject to the Gram Sabha deciding the cultural and religious claims of the tribes and ...

has said she would "strain every nerve" to see that inviolate areas are shielded. The minister said she was not against development but infrastructure projects cannot be allowed at the cost of environment. In a blow to Natarajan, a Group of Ministers (GoM) ...