प्रेस विज्ञप्ति:वन संरक्षण कानून में प्रस्तावित नियम 2022 – हिमालय व लोकतंत्र के लिए विनाशकारी ! 8 हिमालयी राज्यों के 60 से अधिक संगठनो और पर्यावरणविदों ने केन्द्रीय पर्यावरण मंत्रालय को भेजा ज्ञापन हिमालयी क्षेत्र के राज्यों के 60 से अधिक पर्यावरण समूहों, संगठनों, प्रख्यात विचारकों, बुद्धजीवियों और कार्यकर्ताओं ने हिमालयी क्षेत्र में बढ़ते पारिस्थितिकीय […]
Q. What does Himdhara do? Why was there a need for it? Himdhara is a Himachal based environment research and action collective that was formed in 2009. The collective has been working with an environmental justice approach, supporting mountain communities asserting their right to access, use and protect their natural landscapes. The support work itself […]
इस शिविर में संसद द्वारा पारित वन अधिकार कानून 2006 के प्रावधानों व प्रक्रिया के बारे में जिला किन्नौर के जंगी, अक्पा, रारंग, रिब्बा, मुरंग व स्पीलो पंचायत के सक्रिय युवाओं, महिलाओं व पुरुषों को प्रशिक्षित किया गया। शिविर के दौरान वन अधिकार कानून के इतिहास, प्रावधानों, व्यक्तिगत व सामुदायिक वन संसाधन अधिकार के दावों […]
Dated: 29.06.2020 To, The Secretary, Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Indira Paryavaran Bhawan, Jor Bagh Road, Aliganj, New Delhi-110 003. Subject: Scrap Draft “EIA Notification 2020” – Reject Attempts to Relax Environmental Regulations: primary comments on the Draft EIA Notification 2020. Dear Madam/Sir, We, the representatives of different organisations from Himachal Pradesh would […]
Date: 18 May 2020 To, The Chief Minister, Government of Himachal Pradesh. SUBJECT: ENSURE PUBLIC SAFETY AUDITS PRIOR TO RE-OPENING OF INDUSTRIES AND PROJECTS TO PREVENT INDUSTRIAL DISASTERS/ACCIDENTS Shri Jairam Thakur ji, As the government of Himachal decides to re-open the factories and industrial units in the state after a period of almost 5 weeks, […]
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 […]
Written by Aditi Vajpeyi & Vaishnavi Rathore Published on Economic and Political Weekly The emergence of the Forest Rights Act reasserted the vitality of the role people play in conservation and management of natural resources and carving out legal channels for recognition of their forest rights. But, in Himachal Pradesh, the FRA suffers at the […]
People from Kinnaur staged a protest at Reckong Peo today seeking speedy implementation of the Forest Rights Act (FRA) in the tribal areas of the state and to draw the attention of the government towards the growing threat to the ecology. The protesting members of the Zila Van Adhikar Sangharsh Samiti Kinnaur were joined by […]
In a travesty of the Forest Rights Act set up to protect indigenous communities, members of the Lippa tribal village in Himachal Pradesh are being denied individual forest rights. Text by Manshi Asher Photographs by Sumit Mahar Himachal Pradesh, a State where two-thirds of the landscape is categorised as forest and 90 per cent of […]