हिंदी के लिए नीचे स्क्रोल करें Forest Rights is key issue for Himachal electorate: Van Adhikaar Manch submits peoples’charter on FRA to major parties contesting Lok Sabha Elections As the polling date for 17th Lok Sabha elections draw closer in Himachal Pradesh, voices against the non-implementation of the Forest Rights Act 2006 (FRA) continue to gather momentum […]
Article by Vaishnavi Rathore The Supreme Court order of February 13, 2019 on the forced eviction of more than 1,000,000 forest-dwelling households from forestlands across 16 states, once again brought to the fore the sharp ideological divide around the politics of ‘forest’ land ownership. Articulations by the ‘conservation’ lobby in support of the order also […]
भारत के 17वे लोक सभा चुनाव के माहौल में, क्षेत्रफल के हिसाब से हिमाचल के सबसे बड़े संसदीय निर्वाचन क्षेत्र मंडी जिसमे लाहौल-स्पीती, किन्नौर, भरमौर और कुल्लू ज़िले शामिल हैं में वन अधिकार कानून का मुद्दा जोर पकड़ रहा है. मंडी शहर के सेरी मंच पर हिमाचल वन अधिकार मंच द्वारा आयोजित एक दिवसीय धरना […]
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 […]
Local leaders and activists call out the ignorance and apathy of administration, question apathy of the government Close to 1500 tribal people assembled and carried out a rally at Kinnaur’s district headquarter of Reckong Peo on the 29th of December to register their protest against the district administration for not implementing the Forest Rights Act […]
It is World Enviroment Day. Environment is not something outside of us. It is part of us and we are its integral part. In Kinnaur, where communities for centuries have evolved their cultures, language, livelihoods around nature are at crossroads today. In a capitalist world, in a consumerist society, how do mountain people reassess their […]
An article published in The Tribune by Prakash Bhandari & Manshi Asher, members of Himdhara Environment Research and Action Collective A radical act was passed in the Parliament in 2006 which promised to undo the “historical injustice” that was committed on India’s forest dwellers by the non-recognition of their rights on the country’s forests. Himachal […]
26th April 2012 The Ministry of Environment and Forest’s (MoEF) committee that examines and recommends the proposals for forest clearance under the Forest Conservation Act, 1980 has in its meeting dated 2nd April 2012 clarified that no stage 1 Forest Clearance would be accorded to any project until the documentary evidence related to process of […]