-The Hindu Erode: While non-government and welfare organisations are understandably keen to enable tribal communities on the hills to derive utility of abundance of bamboo on the hilly parts, there are indications of ambiguity over the status of implementation of Forest Rights Act 2006 under which bamboo is considered a minor Forest produce. The Union Ministry of Environment and Forests had, during 2011, asked states to treat bamboo as a minor Forest...
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In Himachal Pradesh, a village is using the law to take back Forest land from the Forest Department -Shazia Nigar
-Scroll.in The Forest Rights Act recognises the rights of Forest dwelling communities and entrusts them with the responsibility for conservation. The residents of Gunehar village in Himachal Pradesh’s Kangra district are attempting to use the Forest Rights Act to challenge the state Forest Department’s decision to hand over two hectares of local Forest land to the Wildlife Department to construct an office complex. At the end of December, the Gunehar panchayat...
More »Delhi high court wants CAG to audit Forest department, civic bodies
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The Delhi high court on Thursday decided to rope in the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) to audit city's Forest department and other civic agencies to find out how much money was generated by them from the permission granted to cut trees. A bench of Justices Badar Durrez Ahmed and Ashutosh Kumar asked the national auditor to examine the accounts as it wants to know how...
More »Environmental degradation affects poor rural women -Nidhi Jamwal
-DNA The joint study has found an increase in female-headed households (FHHs) and greater engagement of rural women in agricultural labour. Three days from now, March 8, is the International Women's Day. An important lesson on the relation between women and environment was first taught to us by rural women in the Himalayan region of Uttar Pradesh (now Uttarakhand) who, in the early 1970s, embraced trees to save them from state-backed...
More »Over 4 lakh Forest land titles granted in Odisha
-IANS Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government has so far granted 4.09 lakh individual titles and community titles under the Forest Rights Act (FRA), 2006, a state minister said on Friday. “While 4,03,760 individual titles have been distributed, 5,891 community titles have been settled under the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006,” Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Development Minister Lal Bihari Himirika told the assembly. The state government...
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