Tripura Government has requested the Centre to change the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers Act, 2006 to give dwelling rights in forests to non-tribals who entered the State after 1947.

According to the present law, a patta can be given to a non-tribal whose family is living in forest land for the past 75 years.

Vedanta and POSCO may find going tough in Orissa in a move likely to benefit tribal people and forest communities, the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (moef) has made the law tougher for industries and government agencies that want to divert forestland for industrial and infrastructure projects. On August 4, the ministry issued an advisory to all the states saying such projects

Mahim Pratap Singh

JHABUA (MADHYA PRADESH): In recent local media reports and a half-page advertisement carried in a national daily, the Madhya Pradesh government has claimed to be number one in implementing the Scheduled Tribes and other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006.

Roma, 44, lobbied in favour of the Forest Rights Act against a State impervious to the possibility of a civil war

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has assured that all the forest and environment projects in Northeastern region would be funded on 90:10 ratio, official sources said here on Wednesday.

The

CUTTACK: In a significant direction which will pave way for the State Government to issue `pattas

Meena Menon
Maharashtra