Forest Rights Act
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September 28, 2020, Monday
Repeated amendments to land diversion laws threatening forests, people
There are no guidelines for what kinds of forests should be nurtured on land taken up for compensatory afforestation
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November 20, 2019, Wednesday
These tribals were displaced from C'garh. Can they get land rights in AP?
At least 190,000 Adivasis have been forcefully evicted or displaced since 2005 without compensation or rehabilitation, according ...
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August 02, 2019, Friday
Giving wildlife a fighting chance: The new face of conservation in India
Some of India's top wildlife biologists and ecologists believe that the Forest Rights Act gives both tribals and wildlife a ...
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July 02, 2019, Tuesday
Threat of forced eviction of tribals and forest-dwellers still looms large
Eviction of a few lakh families, instead of millions, is not an option the government should be willing to argue before the SC
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April 01, 2019, Monday
Modi govt's move to amend Forest Act takes a giant leap backwards
The IFA 2019 legally provides the political executive and the forest bureaucracy absolute discretion to open any forestland to ...
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March 24, 2019, Sunday
SC to hear fresh plea for not evicting forest dwellers, to set up an SIT
In the fresh petition, filed through lawyer M L Sharma, Larka has alleged that authorities in Tamnar of Raigarh district of ...
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March 07, 2019, Thursday
Here's why the Forest Rights Act was never implemented efficiently
A detailed analysis by Land Conflict Watch lists the impediments states put in forms of additional conditions and regulations to ...
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March 02, 2019, Saturday
Stay on forest dwellers eviction: How states illegally rejected land claims
On February 13, 2019, the SC ordered that all households whose rights claims under FRA have been rejected should be evicted from ...
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February 28, 2019, Thursday
Supreme Court stays Feb 13 order to evict nearly 1.89 million tribals
Top court gives states four months to file detailed affidavit, slams Centre for "being in slumber" over the years
