हिमाचल जैसे पहाड़ी राज्य में जहां 2/3 भगौलीक क्षेत्र वन भूमि है वहां का स्थानीय समुदाय अपनी आजीविका के लिए वनों पर निर्भर हैं। कई अध्ययनों मे पाया गया है कि वन के संरक्षण और संवर्धन में वनों पर आश्रित समुदायों की महत्वपूर्ण भूमिका रही है। इन्हीं बातों को ध्यान मे रखते हुए भारतीय संसद […]
Amending environmental norms will accelerate ecological crisis in the Himalayas ‘WITHDRAW DRAFT EIA NOTIFICATION 2020’: 50+ organisations, environmentalists from Himalayan region write to Environment Ministry More than 50 environmental groups, organisations, eminent ideologues and activists from across various states of the Himalayan region have issued a joint statement titled ‘STOP ACCELERATING ECOSYSTEMS DISTRESS IN THE […]
Supreme court orders restricting provisions of Section 3(2) FRA 2006 in Himachal Pradesh adversely impacted development rights for welfare activities; Have further derailed FRA progress in the state: Report While the Supreme Court orders around eviction of rejected claims of forest dwellers under FRA in the country last year received much attention, the court’s orders […]
The Himachal Pradesh High Court on Tuesday sought status reports from the central and state governments on the implementation of Solid Waste Management Rules, 2016. Hearing a PIL on “improper and unscientific dumping” of solid and toxic waste and sewage in the Baddi-Barotiwala-Nalagarh industrial belt, a bench of Chief Justice L Narayana Swamy and Justice […]
Press Note: 14th December 2018 After a decade, in a first, a detailed address on Forest Rights Act 2006 in the Legislative Assembly of Himachal Pradesh MLAs Rakesh Singha and Ashish Butail address the assembly In response to consistent pressure from local communities, farmer’s groups and civil society, the Forest Rights Act 2006 finally became […]
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 […]
The Himachal government has notified that the 1% free power to be made available for ‘local area development’ by hydropower producers would be distributed as annual cash transfers to ‘project-affected’ families. Is it trying to buy people’s silence in the face of increasing community opposition to hydroelectric projects? Read Article Copy of the revised notification […]