FOR ENGLISH PRESS NOTE SCROLL BELOW! प्रेस नोट: 3 जून 2019, केन्दुवाल कचरा डंप के पास रह रहे परिवार को हाईकोर्ट से राहत की आश प्रभावित परिवार के पुनर्वास पर हो विचार: उच्च न्यायालय ने दिये आदेश माननीय उच्च न्यायालय ने 21 मई 2019 को बद्दी-बरोटिवाला-नालागढ़ विकास प्राधिकरण ( बीबीएनडीए) प्रशासन को केन्दुवाल कचरा डंप […]
A short video that briefly summaries the ForestRightsAct2006. Please circulate widely to spread awareness about this very important piece of legislation. “The Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act” was passed by the Central government in 2006. This Act was historical because it provided the much needed relief to those […]
Press note 3rd January: Forest Rights Committees lead the way on FRA claim filing process in Himachal even as government unresponsive 4 Forest Rights Committees (FRCs) of Gram Panchayat Kandral in Baijnath submitted their Individual and community claims under Forest Rights Act 2006 (FRA) to the SDM today. The FRCs carried out a rigorous verification […]
A TALK ON National Green Tribunal and Environmental Justice: Current discourses Speaker: Rahul Chaudhary, Legal Initiative for Forests and Environment For the last four decades, since India embarked on a journey of industrial development and then faster economic growth, the environmental issues facing the country have become graver. A complex environmental governance system with a […]
5 June 2014, On the occasion of World Environment Day, two groups, Him Parivesh and Himdhara Environment Research and Action Collective, released a Report on Industrial Pollution in the BBN (Baddi barotiwala Nalagarh) Industrial Area. The report is a compilation of issues raised at a Public hearing organised two months ago, i.e on 5th April 2014 […]
17th April 2014 Chamba An independent all women’s fact finding team visited Holi village to be affected by GMR’s 180 MW Hydro power project on 16 and 17th April 2014. The team comprising of Nandini Rao from Women against sexual violence and state repression, Sridevi Panicker, an independent Delhi based lawyer, Sarvesh, a senior freelance […]
PETITION DEMANDING IMMEDIATE DROPPING OF CHARGES AGAINST TRIBAL WOMEN On 25th March 2014, 31 women from the remote Holi village in District Chamba, Himachal Pradesh belonging to the Gaddi Scheduled Tribe were detained/arrested by the police and taken 70 kms away to the district headquarter at Chamba for protesting against the illegal felling of trees […]
31 tribal women in Holi village, Chamba arrested for protest against hydro-project and asserting forests rights 25th March 2014 This evening (25th March 2014), the Chamba Police arrested 31 tribal women of Holi village, Chamba District at the power house site of the GMR promoted 180 MW Bajoli Holi Hydroelectricity Project. The women have been […]
7th July 2012 In a major setback to Jaiprakash Associates Limited, a Division Bench of the Himachal Pradesh High Court on Friday dismissed two review petitions filed by the corporate group against the Court’s decision to dismantle its captive thermal power plant and against a direction imposing punitive damages of Rs.100 crore for not taking […]
GREEN BENCH ORDERS DISMANTLING OF JAL’s THERMAL PLANT FINES JAYPEE 100 CRORES AS DAMAGES FOR INDULGING IN BLATANT FALSEHOODS CONSTITUTES SPECIAL INVESTIGATING TEAM (SIT) TO IDENTIFY PUBLIC SERVANTS WHO CONNIVED WITH JAYPEE The Shimla High Court Green Bench headed by Justice Deepak Gupta and Sanjay Karol on 4th May 2012 passed a path breaking judgement […]