Kumar Sambhav Shrivastava

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Journalist and Co-founder at Land Conflict Watch

Forest Rights Act 2006 Forests India Supreme Court Tribals Compensation Madhya Pradesh POSCO Minor Forest Produce Maharashtra

A swami and sand mafia

Uttarakhand banned mining along Ganga over and again. Will it obey court order this time?

POSCO gets final clearance

Environment ministry sides with Odisha government, ignores people’s forest rights

Bamboo freed

Maharashtra village India’s first to win right to harvest bamboo. Eyes now on other forest produce

Disowned 100,000

Taungyas have lived in Uttar Pradesh for decades but law does not recognise them. FRA gives hope

Price tag for tendu, bamboo

Government struggles to calculate cost of forest produce

SC refuses to restore stiffer charges for Bhopal disaster accused

But says it does not restrain the sessions court from enhancing the charges against them

Ban on construction work at Maheshwar dam lifted

This despite Jairam Ramesh himself accepted rehabilitation was slow

POSCO clearance illegal: activists

Say the claims made by Odisha government are barefaced lies

POSCO gets final approval

Environment ministry endorses state government’s claim that there are no forest rights to be settled in the project area

High Court’s blow to Lavasa

Lavasa: Dream for one, nightmare for many

Kumar Sambhav Shrivastava finds how people affected by Lavasa are coping with the destruction it has caused

‘State has tendu trade right’

Expert panel report denies forest dwellers this lucrative right

Wildlife habitat rules withdrawn

Misguided rules

Environment ministry framed guidelines which violate Forest Rights Act

Grassroots victory

FRA emboldens tribals in Dudhwa to demand control over grass

Jairam Ramesh withdraws guidelines violating FRA

Fresh guidelines for creating Critical wildlife Habitat to be prepared in consultation with Tribal Affairs ministry

No consensus on FRA review

Top forest officials and National Forest Rights Act Committee engage in a war of words

Forests

Forest rights act under scrutiny

Environment ministry does not seem open to criticism

Koyna sanctuary plundered

Koyna Wildlife Sanctuary is threatened by ceaseless loot of land, with government help

Deer don’t need more space

Uttarakhand says extending sanctuary will hamper development

Non-existent check post

National Green Tribunal fails to start, project clearances continue

Binayak Sen gets life term

Family says will appeal against the verdict

No relief for Lavasa yet

Bombay high court upholds stop work order on its township project

Scrap Lavasa township: petition

Pune project does not have environmental clearance from Centre

Suzlon, Lavasa raised loans from the company named in bribery scam

Scam led to arrest of several top officials of public sector banks

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