After visits to 17 states, a committee set up in April last year to check out the implementation of India’s Forest Rights Act, meant to fix “historical injustice,” wasn’t very happy. The law, which came into full effect two years ago, was intended to assert the rights of forest dwellers more firmly. “The overall finding of the committee is that, with notable exceptions, the implementation of the FRA has been poor,...
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CRZ review may land Posco in trouble by Nitin Sethi
Before the environment minister Jairam Ramesh takes a call on Posco by the end of January the ministry is expected to put up the last of the three reviews of the Rs 54,000 crore project for his perusal – on the Coastal Regulation Zone clearance for the steel plant and the planned port. The review of the CRZ clearance for the project may land the Korean giant in trouble with...
More »Police did little to nab real culprits, says slain RTI activist’s brother by Manoj More
The family of murdered RTI activist Satish Shetty today alleged that the police did little to nab the “real culprits” during the months they investigated the murder. This “inaction”, younger brother Sandeep Shetty said, has emboldened land sharks, citing as a case in point Sunday's attack on an associate of Shetty in Talegaon, the very place where Shetty had been murdered on January 13 last year. The case has since been...
More »Info sought by Shetty will be given on Jan 7
State information commissioner Vijay Kuvalekar on Monday accepted a complaint application from RTI activist Vijay Kumbhar and directed the authorities, including the district collector and the SP, Pune rural, to declare the information sought by slain whistleblower Satish Shetty on January 7. The commissioner also directed to give a copy of the report to RTI activist Arun Mane, Kumbhar said. Kumbhar had filed a complaint application, demanding declaration of all...
More »States using law meant for tribals to gift Forest Land to the landless by Sreejiraj Eluvangal
In a bid to win the hearts of forest-based communities, the government will decriminalise the collection of traditional 'livelihood items' from the forests. The move comes even as a joint committee set up by the environment and tribal affairs ministries found several state governments guilty of using the three-year-old Forest Rights Act to distribute Forest Land to individuals. The committee, headed by Naresh Saxena, development expert and former secretary to the government...
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