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The government has trapped Project Tiger, now 50, in a tough spot | Explained

The Indian government’s violations of the Wildlife (Protection) Act and the Forest Rights Act have exacerbated conflicts in Tiger Reserves between the forest bureaucracy and forest-dwellers, ultimately endangering India’s tigers.

What community forest resources say about India’s forest plans | Explained

What community forest resources say about India’s forest plans | Explained

FRA was enacted to address insecurity of forest dwellers' rights, recognise historical injustice, and prescribe a procedure to record and issue titles to pre-existing rights. It was hailed as a beacon for conservation and was to usher in democratic forest governance. MoEFCC reported evictions of 1.52 lakh hectares of forest…

Gram Sabha meetings to begin with CM’s video message

Gram Sabha meetings to begin with CM’s video message

Gram Sabha meetings in TN to start with CM's video msg; theme "Ellarkkum ellam" (Everything for Everyone). Invitations sent to households; booklets & short films on govt schemes distributed. Discussions on budget, dengue, monsoon & audit reports. Govt increased meetings from 4 to 6.

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Explained | How the amended Forest (Conservation) Act imperils the Northeast

The Mizoram Assembly has passed a resolution opposing the Forest (Conservation) Amendment Act, 2023. Aside from special Constitutional protections in Mizoram and Nagaland, the Act is applicable in the rest of India’s Northeast. In 1996, the Supreme Court expanded the term ‘forest land’, such that the Forest Rights Act also…

After eight years of dispute, peace returns to T.N. village as warring communities agree to bury the hatchet

Close on the heels of Pandiyankuppam village holding its first Gram Sabha meeting in 11 years after prohibitory orders were lifted in May this year, the Kallakurichi district administration has now managed to get two communities in another village, Seshasamudram, who have been at loggerheads for the last eight years,…

A Tamil Nadu village where Section 144 was in force for over a decade

A Tamil Nadu village where Section 144 was in force for over a decade

National Commission for Scheduled Tribes flags alleged discrepancies in Forest Rights Act compliance for Great Nicobar Project

National Commission for Scheduled Tribes (NCST) has now flagged alleged discrepancies with respect to the forest clearance granted for the ₹72,000-crore Great Nicobar Island (GNI) Project.

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Chhattisgarh implements PESA rules

Chhattisgarh implements PESA rules

This will further empower Gram Sabhas to protect tribal rights, says CM

Congress, BJP spar over new forest conservation rules

Congress, BJP spar over new forest conservation rules

The updated rules ignore rights of tribals: Jairam Ramesh

Tamil Nadu: Panchayat vice-president hits deputy BDO with slipper

Tamil Nadu: Panchayat vice-president hits deputy BDO with slipper

Woman vice-president of the Kandamangalam panchayat near Kattumannarkovil in Cuddalore district, Tamil Nadu charged with hitting a deputy block development officer with her footwear at the Gram Sabha meeting

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