Mining

Jairam loses no-go battle, allows coal mining in forested Hasdeo Arand

Blocks not actually within the biodiversity-rich region, he says The bastion of Hasdeo-Arand has finally been broken.

Publication Date: 
24/06/2011
Hindu (New Delhi)
Tags:
Chhattisgarh, Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF), Hasdeo, Biodiversity, Forest Rights Act 2006, Ministry of Coal, Electricity, Coal, Forests
Land

Coercion not the way, Ramesh tells Orissa

The Union government on Sunday asked the Orissa government not to take precipitate action in the wake of a mass protest by locals against the land acquisition process launched at Govindpur village for the Posco steel plant.

Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh said in a statement that coercion was not the way to resolve the crisis.

Publication Date: 
13/06/2011
K. Balchand
Hindu (New Delhi)
Tags:
Orissa (Odisha), Land Acquisition, POSCO, Iron And Steel Industry, Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF), Compensation, Forest Rights Act 2006
Land

Posco project: Civil disobedience stir from today

Accusing the Odisha government of resorting to forcible land acquisition for Posco steel project in Jagatsinghpur district, five political parties have decided to stage civil disobedience agitation here on Monday.

Leaders of CPI, CPM, Forward Bloc, RJD and Samajwadi Party at a meeting alleged that the state government used force to acquire land from the residents of the three gram panchayats un

Publication Date: 
07/06/2011
Pragtivadi (Bhubaneswar)
Tags:
POSCO, Orissa (Odisha), Land Acquisition, Iron And Steel Industry, Farmers, Forest Rights Act 2006, Indian Oil Corporation (IOC)
Land

Parties stage disobedience stir against Posco land acquisition

Alleging forcible land acquisition for Posco steel project near Paradip, five political parties on Saturday resolved to go for a civil disobedience agitation in front of the state secretariat on Monday.

The leaders of five parties comprising CPI, CPM, Forward Bloc, RJD and Samajwadi Party in a joint meeting condemned the state government's alleged act of using force to acquire land from the res

Publication Date: 
06/06/2011
Pragtivadi (Bhubaneswar)
Tags:
Land Acquisition, Orissa (Odisha), POSCO, Forest Rights Act 2006, Indian Oil Corporation (IOC), Farmers
Forests

Final push

Publication Date: 
03/06/2011
V. Venkatesan
Frontline (Chennai)
Tags:
Orissa (Odisha), POSCO, Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF), Forests, Jagatsinghpur (D), Forest Rights Act 2006, High Court, Supreme Court
Land

Expropriation of land and cultures: The Odisha story and beyond

In a state such as Odisha in which Dalit and tribal groups comprise about 40 per cent of the total population, the issue of ‘access’ to land and resources has apparently been central to all conflicts. For traditional communities, ‘access’ is directly linked to civilizational paradigms and cultural ethos, which rather decide their ‘economics’, and not the other way round that may be true for modern, techno-centric civilizations. Most mainstream discourses of history have, however, tried to locate the crisis in the ‘absence of state interventions’.

Publication Date: 
01/06/2011
Subrat Kumar Sahu, Mamata Dash
Social Change
41
2
251-270
Tags:
Land Resources, Orissa (Odisha), Conflicts, Tribals, Scheduled Castes, Naxalites, Land Ownership, Land Reforms, Common Property Resources, Forests, Land Acquisition, Dongria Kondh, Forest Rights Act 2006
People

Disowned 100,000

Taungyas have lived in Uttar Pradesh for decades but law does not recognise them. They have hope from the Forest rights Act 2006 in getting legal identity, as it recognises the traditional rights of scheduled tribes and other forest-dwellers on forest land and resources.

Publication Date: 
31/05/2011
Kumar Sambhav Shrivastava
Down to Earth
20
1
0
Tags:
Bonded Labour, Displacement, Forest Encroachments, Forest Personnel, Forest Resources, Forest Rights Act 2006, Forests, Gorakhpur (D), India, Land Ownership, Maharajganj (D), People, Rehabilitation, Sal, Uttar Pradesh
Forests

Misreading the issues and the landscape

This response to the comment “Protecting India’s Protected Areas” by Praveen Bhargav and Shekar Dattatri (23 April 2011) points out the authors’ misreading of the Forest Rights Act and also of the report of the Joint Committee on the FRA.

Publication Date: 
28/05/2011
Sharachchandra Lele, Ashish Kothar, Roma & et al
Economic and Political Weekly
46
22
107-108
Tags:
Protected Area Conservation, India, Forest Rights Act 2006, Forest Management, Forest Villages, Joint Forest Management (JFM), Minor Forest Produce, Forest Policy, Wildlife, Public Participation, Forest Conservation
Wildlife

Draft protocol for voluntary village relocation in notified core/critical tiger habitats of tiger reserves

These guidelines released by MoEF for voluntary village relocation in notified core critical tiger habitats of tiger reserves aim to ensure that in the process of conservation and protection of tigers, the rights of forest dwellers are respected.

Publication Date: 
27/05/2011
Ministry of Environment and Forests
Tags:
Tiger, Tiger Reserves, India, Relocation, Wildlife Act 1972, Forest Rights Act 2006, National Tiger Conservation Authority, People - Animal Conflicts, Wildlife
Energy

120 Power projects face roadblocks

Problems in acquiring land and delays in forest clearances hit transmission projects

Problems in acquiring land and delays in forest clearances have grounded at least 120 power transmission projects in the country, a senior official with the Central Electricity Authority said.
Most of these projects belong to the Power Grid Corporation and state utilities.

Publication Date: 
26/05/2011
Economic Times (New Delhi)
Tags:
Gram Sabhas, Power Industry, Energy, Thermal Power Plants, Land Acquisition, Forests, Forest Rights Act 2006

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