In 2014, the environment ministry proposed the amount be increased to Rs 5.65 lakh to Rs 55.55 lakh per ha, per this November 2014 report by the Forest Survey of India. "I was stuck for at least 20 minutes near Fountain Chowk in Nehru Colony and when I tried to go across the road, police told me to return to the same route. A guideline was issued which mandated consent from Gram Sabhas for forest diversion and implementation of the Forest Rights Act. (2020), and Nguyen et al. A violation of the provisions of FRA by officials is an offence and anyone violating forest rights can be prosecuted under the FRA and the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989, the law says. Your Email Id. The figures on E-Green watch are also higher than the 253,179 ha on the Parivesh portal. Your email address will not be published. To make forest diversion faster and easier, the environment ministry asked state governments to identify revenue lands and degraded forest lands for compensatory afforestation, on August 8, 2014 and on November 8, 2017. (2020), Cicala et al. ‘The Underground Golden Age Is Over’: Epic Dark Web Opioid Bust Sees 179 Arrests And $6.5 Million Seized, Worried about shortages of your medicine? (2020), Barrios et al. The ministry of tribal affairs did not agree with this change. Right now, the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF&CC) is trying to introduce further changes through the Environment Impact Assessment notification for environmental clearances, which environmentalists have criticised as a move to dilute the requirements to obtain green clearances. (C.R Bijoy is with the Campaign for Survival and Dignity, a national coalition of Adivasi and forest dwellers’ organisations, and works on natural resource politics and governance issues.). I noticed that some people were passing right through the small lanes that go to the same path where I wanted to go so I went through it and reached my destination but it took me 45 minutes to reach where it generally reach in15 minutes. I understand if the administration wanted to stop any group of people which could start a protest or cause chaos but shutting down the main roads completely without any proper planning is absurd," stated Manilal Vishwakarma, a resident of Curzon Road. Another satellite imagery-based study in 2018, by the Community Forest Rights Learning and Advocacy Process and students from the University of Toronto, found instances of agricultural land being used for ‘afforestation’ and of forest land being cleared to create plantations in the name of ‘compensatory afforestation’. Spotlight. It is mandatory for forest diversion and became part of the FCA rules in 1992. Thursday, 24 September 2020 | PNS | Dehradun, 29 September 2020 | Agencies | Chandigarh, 27 September 2020 | Bhavna Dalal | Agenda, 27 September 2020 | Dr Asha Goswami | Agenda, 27 September 2020 | Dr Binay Singh | Agenda, 27 September 2020 | Ajit Kumar Bishnoi | Agenda, 27 September 2020 | Bharat Bhushan Padmadeo | Agenda, 27 September 2020 | Shalini Saksena | Sunday Pioneer, Trump paid $145K in taxes to India, made $2.3m from projects: Report, Lata Mangeshkar turns 91: Sister Asha Bhosle shares unseen childhood memory, Saudi Arabia: G-20 gathering of world leaders to be virtual, Trump and Biden to face off in first 2020 presidential debate on Sep 29, Russian dissident Navalny recovering faster than expected, Federal judge postpones Trump ban on popular app TikTok, Singer Himanshi Khurana tests positive for COVID-19, Melbourne eases lockdown, reopens schools, work, Congressmen protesting against farm laws held, Covid control: CM for special strategy for Lucknow, Kanpur and Meerut, PM to address 2 public meetings in HP on Oct 3, Astroturf | Seeds of future are in present. This is 6.8% of the total recorded forests in India, as per data from the Ministry of Tribal Affairs. For instance, areas claimed for minor forest produce collection could overlap with areas claimed for cattle grazing, leading to double-counting and making the 13% figure an overestimation. In changing these laws, the environment ministry is going against its own admission that the “fine tuning of other forest-related legislation” should be done only after taking the FRA into account. There are several kinds of rights under the FRA, such as a person’s individual rights over land or area that can be used by the locals for collecting forest produce. 11 Lessons $97.00. Compensatory afforestation includes artificial regeneration of forests, pest and disease control, soil conservation, relocation of villages from protected areas and more. This week, the Justice Department announced that they had seized a website that was selling counterfeit face masks to... Are you concerned people might hoard medicine you need?