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Forest Policy
Bamboo rising
Issue Date: Jan 31, 2013
Nobody in Loyendi village keeps track of time. But for its 150-odd residents, December 7, 2012, is a day to remember. “It is our independence day,” says village elder Petra Kanhara. On this day, the village in Odisha’s Kandhamal district got community right over 20 mountains full of forests under the Forest Rights Act (FRA).
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‘Forests can’t survive without communities’
Issue Date: Jul 15, 2012
Why are you opposed to the proposed amendments to the Forest Act?
Interviewee:
Apsara Chapagain
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Colonial hangover persists
Issue Date: Jun 30, 2012
Parkinson’s Law of Triviality states that the time spent on any item on a committee’s agenda will be inversely proportional to its significance. This seems to be happening with the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF). The minister has moved a bill in the Rajya Sabha that seeks to amend the Indian Forest Act (IFA) of 1927.
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Wealth of forests withheld
Issue Date: Sep 15, 2011
Some 40 years ago an experiment began in Arabari forest range of West Bengal that caught the fancy of the nation. The forest authorities roped in the people living in the area in regenerating degraded forests. In return they offered them a share in forest resources and revenue. It worked. Two decades later the Centre adopted the Arabari model to start the Joint Forest Management programme. The response was such that today it involves 25 million people.
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They also serve
Issue Date: Nov 15, 2008
Class of 2006, Indira Gandhi National Forest Academy, Dehradun
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State inaction
Issue Date: Jul 15, 2008
Savvy Soumya Misra
Walking in a single file, through wooded paths, they all headed towards the panchayat office in Premnagar block of Chhattisgarh's Sarguja district. They came in large numbers--men and women, old and young. They came from villages far and near. They were mostly Gond tribals. And they all had one question on their mind What was this Forest Rights Act they had been hearing so much about since January this year?
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Meaning of 'forest' set to change in India
Issue Date: Jun 15, 2007
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The Union ministry of environment and forests (MOEF) has reached the first milestone of its ministerial excercise 'Defining Forest in Indian Context'. At a 2-day meeting held April 30-May 1, 2007, the Ashoka Trust
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