Tribal minister says he hasn’t seen the report on this, though his own secretary is a signatory
A panel set up by the Prime Minister’s Office to review the mechanism for forest clearances in industrial projects has suggested replacing the need for approval from the relevant gram sabha with state government “certificates’’. Tribal Affairs Minister Kishore Chandra Deo says he has yet to see the report, which in effect asks for disregarding the Forest Rights Act (FRA), which he has been championing.
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Links:
[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/news/junk-gram-sabha-nod-forest-clearance-pmo
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/sreelatha-menon
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/newspaper/business-standard-new-delhi
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/thesaurus/forest-clearance
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/gram-sabhas
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/industry
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/land-acquisition
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/ministry-environment-and-forests-moef
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/vedanta-aluminium
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/posco
[11] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/forests
