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Bamboo rights
Two Andhra villages get bamboo rights
Issue Date: Mar 18, 2013
After Mendha-Lekha in Maharashtra's Gadchiroli district and Jamguda in Odisha, two tribal villages in the forests of Andhra Pradesh’s Visakhapatnam district received community rights for harvesting and issuing transit pass for bamboo under the Forest Rights Act (FRA). In a function held on March 17 at G K Veethi, a Schedule Five tribal area, the Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh officially handed over the rights to the Daddugula and Munasarapalli villages councils.
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Another village, this time in Odisha, gets official permit to sell bamboo
Issue Date: Mar 4, 2013
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Bamboo rights: Maharashtra gives priority to paper mill over Forest Rights Act
Issue Date: Jul 9, 2012
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