Deputy Commissioner Ashwathnarayana held a co-ordinating committee meeting in his office on Wednesday to discuss over the effective implementation of Scheduled Tribe and other Traditional Forest Dwellers

Recognition of title subject to final orders THE High Court of Andhra Pradesh on May 1 gave permission to the state government to issue pattas (title deeds) against forestland to 114,000 tribals and forest dwellers who depend on forests for livelihood. They had filed claims under the Forest Rights Act over the past two years but the state was not issuing pattas because a petition in the

Sharmila Krishna | Lucknow

Its bad news for the Forest department. As if the growing man-animal conflicts in the recent years were not enough, the Forest department is now to set to lose land under the Scheduled Tribes and Other Forest Dwellers Act (2006). The implementation of the Act has been slow in UP but is expected to be completed by the year end.

by Raju Kumar

Demanding immediate cancellations of mining leases which affect livelihood of Tribals, the People

Denied rights, aggrieved citizens abstain from voting having lost their means to earn a living, communities are increasingly using their vote to drive home the message they distrust the State. Tribals who lost their agricultural land in a forest area because of faulty implementation of forest rights laws in Maharashtra are as peeved as fishers in the Tamil Nadu-Andhra Pradesh border

Gujjars of Jammu and Kashmir today demanded dismissal of Police and Forest officials who set ablaze more than 30 houses of nomadic Gujjars at village Karnala Chak on the banks of river Tawi adjoining Vikram Chowk in Jammu yesterday.

May 1: The Andhra Pradesh High Court on Friday permitted the state government to issue title deeds (pattas) for four lakh acres of forest land to eligible forest dwelling Scheduled Tribes and other traditional forest dwellers under the Scheduled Tribes and other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act 2006.