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Saga of two villages
Issue Date: Nov 15, 2007
Sukhomajri, a village in Haryana's Panchkula district, became a model of self-reliant development in the 1980s. Its journey from the depths of poverty to a level of prosperity that made it the first Indian village to pay income tax has been a source of inspiration the world over. What lay behind this incredible story was its success in managing its ecological wealth by creating a powerful and united village institution the Hill Resource Management Society (hrms).
Poor little rich states
Issue Date: Jan 15, 2001
ON THE face of it, democracy in India has won a small battle. People's aspirations have been met by the creation of the three new states - Chattisgarh, Uttaranchal and Jharkhand. The people agitated for decades against apathy and skewed development of the mother states - Madhya Pradesh (MP), Uttar Pradesh (UP) and Bihar, respectively. But statehood means only half the battle won.
A belief in tradition
Issue Date: Apr 30, 2000
community forest management THE NEPALESE EXPERIENCE
Issue Date: Feb 29, 2000
In 1993, the Nepal government decided to hand over certain forest areas to rural communities. Six years later, 8,559 such communities are managing 621,942 hectares of forest land in the country. They are bent on accomplishing what the government has not been able to do -- regenerate the fast-depleting forest cover. While government-protected forests go from bad to worse, those managed by communities are getting a new lease of life. Unfortunately, a recent government circular threatens to bring the story of Nepal's community forest management (CFM) to an abrupt end.
On The Warpath
Issue Date: Sep 30, 1999
Disjointed and confused
Issue Date: Nov 30, 1996
The woods are lovely
@ Issue Date: Jan 31, 1995
COLONIAL forest administration, which didn't give a damn about the fecund land it was so easily reducing to cinders and stumps, lasted almost a century. The sad thing is that even after Independence, the imperial order of green decimation refused to come unstuck and is now almost pathologically entrenched in the minds of a bureaucracy paralysed by 40 years of self-misrule and a complete lack of a love 0' the land.
Foresters, villagers vie for land in Bengal
Issue Date: Jan 15, 2008
tribal villagers in West Bengal's West Midnapore district chopped down around 6,600 young eucalyptus trees on a
six-hectare state forest department plantation recently. The residents claim the land in the district's Chandra forest range is theirs and they want it
back. Forest department officials rubbish the claims and are preparing to slap legal charges on the villagers.
Rolling on
Issue Date: Nov 15, 2007
Bunga took the sukhomajri story forward
The first village to follow Sukhomajri's development model was Bunga, just 30 km away in Haryana's Panchkula district (see timeline: Divergent trajectories). Its success is on a surer footing for now, because it is not dependent on the forest department, but it still needs help from the government in the long term, which it isn't getting.
