The Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006, is a key piece of forest legislation passed in India on December 18, 2006. It has also been called the "Forest Rights Act", the "Tribal Rights Act".
THE tribal affairs ministry appears to be all set to resist dealing with the issue of implementation of the Forest Rights Act in the Posco project area in Orissa.
The fate of the Rs 54,000-crore Posco steel plant in Orissa will be discussed tomorrow when the Forest Advisory Committee (FAC) will meet Union environment minister Jairam Ramesh to come up with a course of action on the proposed steel plant. The FAC met today to discuss the issue.
Bhubaneswar: South Korean steel major Posco on Wednesday made it clear that it has never violated any law or procedure for obtaining any governmental clearance whatsoever required for its proposed steel project near Paradip in Jagatsinghpur district.
The company, in response to the opinion of the Meena Gupta Committee report on the alleged violation of the Forest Rights Act for implementation o
The issue of industry versus environment will once again heat up on Monday with the Meena Gupta committee submitting its report on Posco's steel plant in Orissa and the Supreme Court taking up the plea of Sterlite Industries against the Madras high court judgement to shut its plant in Tamil Nadu.
The Meena Gupta committee is looking at the violation of the Forest Right Act at Posco
Continuing high rates of deforestation and forest degradation and the poor contribution of forests and forestry to poverty reduction are undermining efforts to promote sustainable forest management
(SFM) in many countries in the Asia-Pacific region.
