KOCHI: Forests Minister Benoy Viswom has directed Forest officials to take necessary steps possible under the Forests Act to ensure basic facilities like drinking water, electricity and roads for tribals in the state.

In an oral instruction given to Chief Wildlife Warden K K Sreevasthava, the Minister said the report on completed work should be submitted before the government in two months.

MUKESH RANJAN
NEW DELHI

Even as Andhra Pradesh has performed well in implementing the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGREGS) and in managing the state finances, the Planning Commission has found that in case of rural roads and the Forests Right Act, the state has failed to live up to expectations and remained way behind the national average.

K.T.Sangameswaran

CHENNAI: As held by the Supreme Court, the term

A BILL further to amend the Kerala Forest Act,1961. This Act may be called the Kerala Forest (Amendment) Act, 2008.

Hyderabad, Dec. 4: The Obulapuram Mining Company, owned by Mr Gali Janardhan Reddy, tourism minister of Karnataka, and Anantapur Mining Corporation, owned by his wife on Friday approached the Andhra Pradesh High Court against the letters written by the ministry of environment and forests, Government of India.

AGARTALA, Nov 25: The Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act has been proving to be a hurdle in the implementation of Tripura JICA project, an externally aided project for poverty alleviation of forest-dependent people of the State.

Agartala: The Tripura government has demanded funding for land utilisation projects for more than 84,000 tribal families who got land deed under the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act in the state.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Forest Minister Benoy Viswom said here on Thursday that the State government was trying to solve a two-decade-old problem of farmers by amending the Kerala Forest (Vesting and Management of Ecologically Fragile Lands) Act.

Acting firm on erring mines, the Goa State Pollution Control Board has asked the Forest Department to furnish information on another 74 mines whether these have obtained necessary forest and wildlife clearances as mentioned in the Forest Conservation Act.

Tribal inhabitants and forest-dwellers today pressed for their forest rights through a huge rally in the city.

The Campaign for Survival and Dignity, a national forum for the tribals and forest-dwellers, protested non-implementation of Forest Rights Act by taking out a rally which saw participation of hundreds of tribals from across the State.

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