Free cheers to the Forest Rights Act Even as 2007 turned to 2008, an incident occurred at village Khorashkhuli, at the edge of the Chandra forest range in West Bengal

Special Correspondent

SALEM: Members of the Thamizhaga Adivasi Amaippugalin Kootamaippu (TAAK) have urged the Tamil Nadu Government to implement the Forest Rights Act 2006 uniformly.

The members claimed that Union Government had already passed the act while many states, including Tamil Nadu, were showing little interest to implement the same.

Critical tiger habitats made easy identification of critical wildlife habitats, a provision in the Forest Rights Act, 2006, has made little progress since the act was notified on December 31, 2007. The reason, an environment ministry official said, was that state governments had not sent any proposal to identify and notify such habitats. Critical wildlife habitats are created in

GANGTOK

MIDNAPORE, Nov. 6: After a decade long struggle, the tribals in the state are finally benifitting from their traditional rights to the forest land, from which they had been deprived creating strong resentment among them.

The tribals of Midnapore West are the first to reap the benefits of the

New Delhi,

In an effort to provide more welfare facilities for the Scheduled Tribes, the tribal affairs ministry has sought diversion of forest land for health and education schemes for these communities.

fear of relocation has triggered resentment among tribals living in Atharamura and Baramura hill ranges of Tripura, where a survey has been ordered to identify critical wildlife habitats. Political party Indigenous Nationalist Party of Tripura (inpt), tribal social organization Borok Peoples

JAIPUR: Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader Brinda Karat has accused the Rajasthan Government of not taking proper steps for implementation of the Tribal Rights Act, 2006.