Rules being framed for disinvestment of natural resource based PSUs

THE NEW FORESTERS . Sushil Saigal, Hema Arora and SS Rizvi . March . 2002 The new role of private enterprise in the Indian forestry sector, that's essentially what this book talks about. In the

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a disaster in the making? This question is being raised about a proposal of Quebec's largest utility company, which plans to build 36 new dams on 24 rivers across the province. If implemented, the

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private sector participation in forestry projects will only be allowed in degraded and denuded forest lands. The recently approved Approach Paper to the Ninth Five Year Plan (1997-2002) says that the concept of privatisation of forest areas was not conducive in the Indian context and would therefore, not be encouraged in forest resource management.

One of the last environmental actions of recently assassinated Sri Lankan President Ranasinghe Premadasa was to block a private company's attempts to initiate mechanised gem mining in the Kalu