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 […]
A Himalayan village’s struggle to assert its forest rights Manshi Asher 01 September 2019 Karam Sain led the way through the narrow paths of the temperate forest near the tribal village of Lippa, located in the Kinnaur district of Himachal Pradesh. The cool May air was filled with the scent of dried chilgoza pine cones, […]
हिंदी के लिए नीचे स्क्रोल करें Lack of safety compliance in Hydro Projects invitation to disasters: Community representatives, activists to authorities This Lok Sabha elections both major national parties, the BJP and Congress in their manifestos speak of “Protecting the Himalayas”. However both parties and their candidates remain silent on a grave issue of concern […]
Article by Vaishnavi Rathore The Supreme Court order of February 13, 2019 on the forced eviction of more than 1,000,000 forest-dwelling households from forestlands across 16 states, once again brought to the fore the sharp ideological divide around the politics of ‘forest’ land ownership. Articulations by the ‘conservation’ lobby in support of the order also […]
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 […]
EVEN as the Supreme Court has stayed its order directing state governments to evict occupants from forestland whose claims for land titles under the Forest Rights Act (FRA) have been rejected, about 20 lakh tribal and other forest-dependent families across the country continue to be on tenterhooks. The order was passed on a petition filed […]
Film Ho Gyi Hai Pir Parvat Si (The Mountains Agonized) is directed by Subrat Kumar Sahu. He is known for making films that reflect our social structures and has often been sceptical about the “way of development” through his craft. Ho Gayi Hai Pir Parvat Si – Hindi (The Mountains Agonized) is his 8th documentary […]
9 Dec 2018 The premiere screening of “The mountains agonized” (Ho gayi hai pir parbat si – Hindi), a documentary film on the impacts of hydropower development in the Satluj Valley made by Independent Filmmaker Subrat Kumar Sahu was held at Sambhaavnaa Institute in Palampur on the 8th of December at a film festival called […]
As threats to common properties magnify, as people’s traditional access to living systems is denied, the Forest Rights Act starts making its way into people’s lives, in the trans-himalayan valley of Spiti, to uphold the rights that have sustained residents here for centuries. On an overcast day, we stirred a conversation with few members of […]