This paper analyses historical origins of forest rights deprivation and contemporary processes through which local people are seeking to restore their forest rights, taking the case of the Indian Forest Rights Act 2006 as an example to illustrate wider issues in historical institutional theory.
A three-member team from the ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) on Friday visited the park in neighbouring Noida where statues of Mayawati and other Dalit leaders will be coming up
With the Centre ruling out any change in the 1980 Forest Conservation Act, a prominent NGO here has sought the intervention of UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi on the issue claiming that her late husband, Rajiv Gandhi, was in favour of amending the legislation to protect the rights of tribal people.
Sanguem MLA Vasudev Gaonkar questioned the failure of the government to implement the Tribals Forest Act in Goa.
At the hearing of the Goa Assembly Ad hoc Committee on Agriculture and Forests, Gaonkar sought to know why the Act has not been demanded in the state till date.
The BJP government has intentionally delayed the implementation of the Forest Dwellers Act that gives land rights to the original inhabitants, alleged District Youth Congress President Sachin Meega.
Talking to reporters after campainging at Mundugodu SC/ST Colony in the taluk on Thursday, he said the BJP government has delayed the process fearing that the credit might go to Congress.
TIRUCHI: The State Government has formulated rules under the Tamil Nadu Forest Act, 1882 to encourage private owners grow more sandal trees in their lands besides laying down the procedures to be followed for felling and disposal of such trees to the government.
Mumbai Asks district collectors to revoke permissions, inform civic body to cancel rights on such land.
In a bid to preempt any more construction on private forest land, the state government has ordered all non-agriculture permissions issued on such lands to be revoked.
THE Scheduled Tribes and Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006, or Forest Rights Act (FRA) in short, was heavily debated right from its inception up to its coming into force on December 31, 2007. While most of the arguments that preceded its notification focussed on the perceived positive or harmful effects of the Act, they are yet to become evident.
