Forests

Displaced and marginalized: protecting the traditional knowledge, customary laws and forest rights of the Yanadi tribals of Andhra Pradesh

Most of the Yanadi community in Chittoor and Nellore districts are now seeking their livelihoods by getting jobs in other places and are living their life forgetting much about their age old rich traditions and customs. The net result is that traditional knowledge and customary practices that were in practice since times immemorial are dying out day by day.

Publication Date: 
31/08/2010
S. Vedavathy
IIED
Tags:
Forests, Forest Management, Forest Rights Act 2006, Tribals, Traditional Knowledge, Andhra Pradesh, Chittoor (D), Nellore (D), Intellectual Property Rights (IPR), Health Care
Mining

MoEF expands terms of reference of Posco committee

Will review compliance of the project with various statutory provisions and central, state clearances.

The Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) has expanded the terms of reference of the Meena Gupta committee probing into alleged violations of the Forest Rights Act at the Posco project site in Orissa.

The order amending the terms of reference said that it will now review the compliance

Publication Date: 
31/08/2010
Business Standard (New Delhi)
Tags:
Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF), POSCO, Mining, Iron And Steel Industry, Orissa (Odisha), Environment Impact Assessment (EIA), Coastal Regulations, Rehabilitation, Forest Rights Act 2006
Mining

Posco report by September end

Bhubaneswar: The Meena Gupta Committee, which is probing into the implementation of Forest Right Act and the Rehabilitation & Re-settlement Policy in the proposed site for Posco

Publication Date: 
31/08/2010
Financial Express (New Delhi)
Tags:
POSCO, Mining, Iron And Steel Industry, Forest Rights Act 2006, Rehabilitation, Land Acquisition, Jagatsinghpur (D), Orissa (Odisha), Industry
Industry

Posco panel mandate widened

NEW DELHI: In a snub to Orissa Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik's claims that the Central government had promised to

Publication Date: 
31/08/2010
Hindu (New Delhi)
Tags:
POSCO, Orissa (Odisha), Mining, Coastal Regulations, Land Acquisition, Forest Rights Act 2006, Iron And Steel Industry, Industry
Mining

Centre stops work at POSCO site

THE Union environment ministry has written to Orissa's principal secretary (forests) directing the state to stop work on the Korean steel giant POSCO's plant in Jagatsinghpur district.

Publication Date: 
30/08/2010
Down to Earth
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Tags:
POSCO, Mining, Orissa (Odisha), Iron And Steel Industry, Forest Rights Act 2006, Jagatsinghpur (D), Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF)
Mining

Central team completes visit to Posco site

Prafulla Das

BHUBANESWAR: The four-member Central team that came to assess the implementation of the Forest Rights Act in the area chosen for the proposed steel plant of Posco-India Private Limited in Orissa's Jagatsinghpur district completed its three-day visit on Sunday.

The committee, headed by the former Union Environment Secretary, Meena Gupta, met top government officials, representati

Publication Date: 
30/08/2010
Hindu (New Delhi)
Tags:
POSCO, Iron And Steel Industry, Jagatsinghpur (D), Forest Rights Act 2006, Land Acquisition, Orissa (Odisha), Forests, Mining, Industry
Mining

Niyamgiri triumph

A victory for the enforcement of the rights of adivasis, but does this really mark a new beginning? (Editorial)

Publication Date: 
28/08/2010
Economic and Political Weekly
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Tags:
Mining, Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF), Vedanta Aluminium, Orissa (Odisha), Bauxite, Kalahandi, Rayagada (D), Dongria Kondh, Forest Rights Act 2006
Environment

Putting environment on the centre stage

In popular imagination, he has two different avatars. The truth is somewhere in between
Our Political Bureau NEW DELHI

Publication Date: 
25/08/2010
Economic Times (New Delhi)
Tags:
Environment, Mining, Forests, Indian Institute Of Technology (IIT), Forest Rights Act 2006, Environment Act 1986, Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF), Orissa (Odisha)
Mining

Decision on grant of forest clearance in Kalahandi and Rayagada districts of Orissa ....

MoEF has rejected Vedanta's mining project in Orissa. Read this final decision by MoEF on grant of forest clearance in Kalahandi and Rayagada districts for proposal submitted by Orissa Mining Corporation on mining in Lanjigarh.

Publication Date: 
24/08/2010
Ministry of Environment & Forests
Tags:
Mining, Bauxite, Kalahandi, Rayagada (D), Orissa (Odisha), Supreme Court, Forest Rights Act 2006, Tribals, Forests, Wildlife, Biodiversity, Vedanta Aluminium
Mining

Report of the four member committee for investigation into the proposal submitted by the Orissa Mining Corporation Ltd for bauxite mining in Niyamgiri - Agenda Item

The Forest Advisory Committee (FAC) considered the report submitted by the four member committee constituted by the Ministry of Environment and Forests vide its order dated 29.06.2010 for investigation into a proposal submitted by the Government of Orissa for diversion of 660.749 ha forest land in favour of Orissa Mining Corporation Ltd for bauxite mining in the Niyamgiri hills in Kalahandi and

Publication Date: 
19/08/2010
Ministry of Environment & Forests
Tags:
Mining, Orissa (Odisha), Supreme Court, Kalahandi, Rayagada (D), Forest Rights Act 2006, Vedanta Aluminium, Dongria Kondh, Environment Act 1986, Bauxite

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