The Saxena Committee on 'The Forest Rights Act' Implementation Public Consultation in Orissa Friday, July 23, 2010
By Kishore Kumar Patnaik, The committee members Dr. Ravi Chellam, Wilidlife Conservation Society of India Programme, Bangalore; Dr. Arup Jyoti Saikia, IIT Guwahati; Mr Ashis Kothari, Kalpavriksh, Pune and Mr Achyuta Samanta, KIIT Group, Bhubaneswar were heard and received the written submissions from Adivasis, Adivasis belong to Primitive Tribal Group, Dalits and Other communities, civil society organizations, government departments, interested individuals and others from different places of Orissa.
The SCSTRTI, Government of Orissa,
Some of the important presented views are:-
1. The other than Adivasi claims forms are not accepted by the Sub-Divisional Level Committees and Government Officials in the Koraput district and other places of Orissa. The Government Officials straightaway refusing the claims of Non Adivasis.
2. The record of rights on forest land issued to the claimants basing on the Government Officials willingness not on the area of acres land claimed by the claimants.
3. The process of issuing recognition of pattas still continues not yet given in all the areas
4. The issue of community rights over forest land is progressing in slow process.
5. The family level or community level forms are not available to the persons living in the forest area few persons stated.
6. The forest rights committees do not know why for they have formed and they need rigorous training and awareness to involve in the implementation process of Forest Rights Act and Rules
7. The recognition of pattas not issued to all the claimants by the issuing authorities
8. Mr Shakti Deuri an Adivasi from Banobasa Sahi,
9. The Dongaria Kandhs from Niyamgiri hills of Rayagda District stated, “Some of us received the individual land rights over forest land and the remaining recognition of families pattas has to be issued immediately”. The community rights over forest land has not yet filed till today because of unavailability of community forms which we demand here to get the community rights following the procedural ways of Forest land laws as soon as possible.
10. Mr Rabi Behera, President of Samaj Badi Party has presented a memorandum to the committee demanding the purpose of Forest Righst Act introduction and its implementation is to be taken care for effective results as it depends on the livelihood of forest dwellers.
In the end of public consultation Mr Ashish Kothari, the committee member said we have received many more opinions, grievances, suggestions in written and vocal on the Forest Rights Act implementation form here. We take all these observations made by all of you and would prepare a report and will submit it to the Central Government of India very soon. On behalf of committee he has also requested all of you can send if any opinions or claims left out to the committee through SCSTRTI or Vasundhara organization or else directly also through emails or postal services.
The committee has formed with the following members:- ………………………….
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MoEF panel to visit Posco site today
BS Reporter / Kolkata/ The three-member National Forest Rights Act Committee of the Union ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) led by its member Ashish Kothari is slated to visit the Posco site and interact with affected people on Saturday to do a reality check on the violation of Forest Rights Act.
The team would visit Dhinkia, Gobindpur,Nuagaon Gadkujang, Nolishai, Polang, Bayanalkanda, Bhiuyanpal, the villages in Jagatsinghpur district affected by the Posco project.
The team members today interacted with the officials of the Jagatsinghpur district administration to ascertain the Orissa government's claims of non-violation of Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act 2006.
The district officials clarified that four tribal families of Polang village under Gadkujang panchayat are staying out of the boundaries of the Posco project site and hence there is no violation of the Act. Besides, no single tribal family is staying within the Posco project site, the officials reiterated.Moreover, there is no single traditional forest dweller at the Posco site because no land document has been issued yet to anyone with a claim to be living in the forest land for the past three decades. The clarification was given by Jagatsinghpur district collector Narayan Jena; additional district magistrate of Paradip, Sarojkant Chaudhury; divisional forest officer of Rajnagar, Prasanna Behera,; district rehabilitation officer Surjeet Das and special land acquisition officer Nrusingh Swain………………………..
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Forest dept flouts rules in catching Gurgaon leopard [Delhi
Times of India, The, Jul 13, 2010 | by Sukanya, Sumi
GURGAON: A female leopard was illegally captured by forest officials near Gurgaon on Saturday night after it reportedly killed the pet dog of the owner of a farmhouse on the Sources said the incident took place at farmhouse number F-14 near Tikli village. The Haryana government later ordered that action be taken against the forest officials and the farmhouse owner on charges of violating the Wildlife Act. "There are five-six more leopards in the area," said officials.
The leopard's partner and her cubs waited the entire night outside the cage in which the leopard was kept before she was taken to an undisclosed location by forest officials. Meanwhile, nearby villagers rose up in arms against the move, claiming the leopard was not a man-eater.
"It's the farmhouse owners and not the wild animals who are intruders in the protected forest area. Who gave them the right to capture the leopard in this manner?" asked Surajbhan, a resident of Tikli village. The area, adjacent to the Aravali hills, has over 200 farmhouses.
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Bamboo Production in India
Posted On: 24-Jul-2010 04:10:54 AM By: Dr Gursharan singh kainth Font Size: 
Bamboo is an enduring natural resource and provides income, food, and housing to over 2.2 billion people worldwide. There is need for improving the livelihood of forest dwellers and generating employment through the bamboo development programme. India
Bamboo in many ways is the mainstay of the rural Indian economy, sparking considerable social and ecological spin-offs. In the early part of the century, large tracts of bamboo occurred in many parts of the country but were treated by forestry sector (which was then cast in a production forestry mode) as a weed of little economic value and were used mostly by the rural communities for crafts, making implements and as housing material. It was the discovery of bamboo as a source of long-fibre by the Forest Research Institute in Dehradun that started the process of using bamboo in a variety of industrial applications, so far unexplored, with several paper mills and rayon mills being set up. But in the absence of a clear policy of husbanding of the resource there was rapid degradation and decimation of the resource in much of the country.
Bamboo resources plummeted so alarmingly that at present the resource is limited to few pockets in the country. Two-thirds of the bamboo in the country is restricted to the seven states of North-Eastern Region (NER) while the remaining one-third is spread across the country. But there is hope for the resurgence of bamboo based on evidence of significant new and contemporary economic opportunities that have emerged over the past decade. A bamboo revolution that holds the potential of reversing economic downturns and ensuring profitability is very much possible.
Bamboo is an untapped avenue of economic growth and a burgeoning bamboo sector can rope in prosperity, profits, and sustainable livelihoods. The rapid increase in greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, land degradation, increasing floods and droughts, deforestation, loss of biodiversity and productivity are leading to an ecological crisis affecting livelihood options for development, increasing poverty, pollution and unsustainable development………………………………………….
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