-Livemint.com The current National Forest Policy dates back to 1988 before India’s economic liberalization started and now the government wants a revision, as it perceives a decline in corporate investments into the Forest sector New Delhi: Imagine two scenarios. One is a natural Forest, nature’s complex multi-layered ecosystem and a landscaped home to 80% of all terrestrial biodiversity where thousands of species of plants, animals and microorganisms interact and thrive. The second...
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Anti-Forest, anti-Forest dweller -Chitrangada Choudhury
-The Hindu The Compensatory AfForestation Fund is a deeply flawed and unjust mechanism Last month, Minister of State for Environment, Forests and Climate Change Mahesh Sharma informed Parliament that his Ministry has collected over ?50,000 crore in a Central compensatory afForestation fund (CAF). This money is to be used though the Compensatory AfForestation Fund (CAF) Act, 2016 or CAF, a purported mechanism to offset Forest loss. Before issuing Forest clearances to a...
More »National Forest Policy Draft 2018 Takes One Step Forward, Two Steps Back -Sushant Agarwal
-TheWire.in Unless consumer preferences shift to climate resistant crops, goals associated with the policy won’t materialize. On March 14, the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) uploaded a draft of the National Forest Policy 2018, three decades years after the last such policy. The draft appears to be an attempt to shift the approach towards Forestry in India – specifically, from a local community- and ecology-centric approach emphasised in the...
More »Forget job growth, employment in India actually fell between 2014 and 2016 -Manas Chakravarty
-Livemint.com Data from the latest KLEMS India database shows that employment in the Indian economy shrank by 0.1% in 2015-16 and by 0.2% in 2014-15 Mumbai: Employment in the total Indian economy shrank by 0.1% in financial year 2015-16 and by 0.2% in 2014-15. Far from more jobs being created, employment has actually contracted. That is the finding from the latest KLEMS India database, a research project supported by the Reserve Bank of...
More »Centre seeks to change Forest policy to promote industrial plantations in natural Forests -Kumar Sambhav Shrivastava
-Scroll.in The existing policy bans commercial activity in natural Forests to protect Forest dwellers. The new draft policy is up for public comments till April 14. The Union government has drafted a new National Forest Policy. If approved, the policy will allow the corporate sector to grow, harvest and sell trees on government-owned Forest lands. So far, this is explicitly banned under the existing National Forest Policy, which was laid down...
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