Chamba Van Adhikar Manch in collaboration with the Himdhara Collective held awareness building meetings last week on the Forest Rights Act 2006 in 15 Panchayats of Tissa and 2 Panchayats of Salooni block in Chamba District. During the meetings the most common issue was of old occupations on forest land for habitations, agricultural fields, temporary […]
चंबा वन अधिकार मंच व हिमधरा पर्यावरण समूह की संयुक्त पहल से जिला चंबा के तीसा ब्लाक में 21 से 23 फ़रवरी तक वन अधिकार कानून जागरूकता यात्रा का आयोजन किया गया। यात्रा के तीसरे दिन ग्राम पंचायत बघेईगढ़ में 8 पंचायतों के पंचायत प्रतिनिधि, वन अधिकार समिति के सदस्यों व अन्य वन निवासियों के […]
हिन्दी प्रेस नोट के लिए नीचे स्क्रॉल करें! PRESS NOTE: 15th January 2022 | Yet another Tunnel testing hazard at a hydropower site in Himachal; Seepages from 180 MW Bajoli-Holi Power Project at Jharauta village in tribal area Bharmour of Chamba in late December triggers landslides, damage to homes; Villagers had warned of poor geology during project […]
Interactive timeline | The ‘Clean Energy’ Hazardscape
by Manshi Asher Sunderlal Bahuguna may have departed, but there are many formidable repositories of diverse oral and embodied knowledge that we could fall back on In the era of irreversible ecological destruction, initiatives to ‘save the environment’ mushroom every day. It is, after all, also the age of ‘solutions’. ‘Green’ is now a pre-fix […]
वन अधिकार कानून, 2006 के बारे में जानकारी आम जनता तक पन्हुचाने के लिए सिरमौर वन अधिकार मंच और चंबा वन अधिकार मंच के कार्यकर्ताओं द्वारा फरवरी- मार्च में जन जागरण अभियान चलाया गया। सिरमौर वन अधिकार मंच द्वारा चलाई गयी प्रक्रिया के अंतर्गत शिलाई तहसील के कलोग, नाया पंजोर, अज्रोली और जसवी गांव में वन अधिकार कानून, […]
We are currently under the grip of a pandemic by the name of COVID-19 that has brought life to a standstill as we know it. This world-wide public health crisis has affected the lives and livelihoods of billions of people, and governments have been forced to take stern measures to tackle the contagion in the […]
वन अधिकार कानून देश में लागू हुए एक दशक से ज्यादा हो गया पर आज भी इस कानून को सरकारें ढंग से लागू नहीं कर रहीं हैं. एक तरफ हिमाचल जैसे राज्य हैं जहां इसका क्रियान्वयन बहुत धीमी गति से चल रहा है तो कई ऐसे राज्य हैं जहां लाखों दावे भरे गए हैं परन्तु […]
A Summary Note Even as we are at the end of the fifth decade of celebrating the World Environment Day, globally the environmental crisis continues to worsen. One of the solutions to mitigate the climate crisis and green house gas emissions adopted by countries including India has been shifting to renewable energy sources like Hydropower. […]
EVEN as the Supreme Court has stayed its order directing state governments to evict occupants from forestland whose claims for land titles under the Forest Rights Act (FRA) have been rejected, about 20 lakh tribal and other forest-dependent families across the country continue to be on tenterhooks. The order was passed on a petition filed […]