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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
आज 3 अप्रैल को हिमाचल वन अधिकार मंच ने मंडी में एक प्रेस वार्ता में बताया के 11 अप्रैल को वन अधिकार कानून को प्रभावी और न्यायपूर्ण तरीके से लागू करने की मांग को ले कर मंडी में सेरी मंच पर होगा एक दिवसीय धरना. मंच के सदस्यों ने बताया कि यह कानून हिमाचल राज्य […]
High Court Order of 9th July provides relief to occupants by quashing DFO orders; High Court Bench puts ball in DFO Kinnaur’s court to hear matter; High court mentions FRA and gives liberty to make submissions under FRA to State government. The orders of the Hon’ble High Court, dated 6th April 2015, followed by subsequent […]
17/4/2018 Shimla Himachal Van Adhikar Manch is one of the 150 signatories of the submission made to the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change raising objections to the serious flaws in the Draft National Forest Policy 2018. The MoEFCC came out with the draft last month, for which they had comments and suggestions from concerned citizens […]
Himachal Groups endorse the demand to withdraw current draft The Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change (MoEFCC) came out with a Draft National Forest Policy, for which they had comments and suggestions from concerned citizens this month. Hundreds of civil society, forest rights and environmental groups have slammed the draft on various grounds the […]