-Bangalore Mirror The issue of encroachments in Devammachi Reserved Forests in Diddalli, Kodagu has thankfully evoked a balanced response from political leaders cutting across party lines. The Chief Minister, the District Minister, the Member of Parliament and the Virajpet MLA have all taken a clear stand that such fresh Forest encroachments cannot be permitted while maintaining that poor people would be rehabilitated outside. However, the ill informed actions and statements of...
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Much to farmers' dismay, Centre slashes prices of non-timber Forest products -Anupam Chakravartty
-Down to Earth Modi government’s attempt at rationalising prices of Forest products is likely to hit Adivasi farmers the most At the time when there has been demand for increasing the minimum support prices for various agricultural products, the NDA government has gone ahead and slashed the prices of Forest produce on which livelihoods of several Forest-dwelling tribes depend. Stating the need to rationalise the minimum support price (MSP) as they...
More »Modi government cuts MSP of seven minor Forest produce items -Nidhi Sharma
-The Economic Times NEW DELHI: The Modi government has slashed the minimum support price of seven of the 11 products covered under minor Forest produce collected by tribals in remote Forest areas. The decision comes three years after the previous Congress-led UPA government fixed the MSP for these products for the first time. “The decision had to be taken because MSPs had been fixed on the higher side and needed to be rationalised....
More »The man who slaked India's thirst -Joydeep Gupta
-TheThirdPole.net Anupam Mishra, who spent three decades fighting for rejuvenation of India’s traditional water harvesting systems, died on December 19 If many of India’s ponds, wells, stepwells, springs, check dams and other traditional water harvesting systems are still in working order today, if at least a few of India’s rivers have been revived, much of the credit must go to Anupam Mishra. Through reportage, analysis and advocacy sustained over three decades, this...
More »Pushed to the brink -Kanchi Kohli
-Deccan Herald Seriously?” one of the participants in a training session exclaimed. “You mean to say the site inspection report was prepared after an aerial visit, and there was no on ground verification?” All I did was a combination of a half nod, half smile. I have told this story several times before and each time the recipient of the news gives me a variant of the same reaction. It is...
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