Panel pulls up Centre on implementation of Forest
Rights Act
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New Delhi, Nov 16 (PTI) A Parliamentary panel has pulled up
the Centre for"tardy"pace of the implementation of the Forest Rights
Act and said the progress made under the law was"still far from
satisfactory"though three years have elapsed since it came into force.
Asking the Ministry of Tribal Affairs to involve
itself"pro-actively"in the process, Standing Committee on Social
Justice and Empowerment in its tenth report on implementation of Scheduled
Tribes and Other Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act,
recommended that Ministry should"orient, assist and
guide"appropriately the states for gearing them up for the implementation
of the law.
"The Committee are unhappy to note the tardy progress
of the implementation of the Act where out of a total number of 28,49,000
claims (for land title) received so far only 9,93,988 title deeds have been
distributed in various states which works out to be mere 32.36 per
cent,"the committee said in its report which was tabled in Lok Sabha
today.
"The Committee is pained to note that though the Act
was notified in 2007 and three years have since elapsed…………………..
Temperature rise to hit water, forest, health,
agriculture: Report
PTI, Nov 16, 2010, 06.52pm IST
NEW DELHI: India's key sectors like water, forest, health
and agriculture will be affected in a major way due to the increase in net
temperature by 1.7- 2.2 degree celsius in another 20 years in the four climate
hotspots.
The "Climate Change and India: a 4x4 assessment" report, which was released today providing an assessment of impact of climate change in 2030, also predicts an increase in precipitation (rain, snow and storm) in the eco-fragile areas of the Himalayas, North-east, Western Ghats and the coastal region.
Prepared by India's Network for Climate Change Assessment (INCCA), the report says "the net increase in annual temperatures in 2030 with respect to 1970s would range between 1.7 degree Celsius to 2.2 degree Celsius with extreme temperature increasing by 1 to 40 degree Celsius with maximum increase in coastal regions." …………………
The "Climate Change and India: a 4x4 assessment" report, which was released today providing an assessment of impact of climate change in 2030, also predicts an increase in precipitation (rain, snow and storm) in the eco-fragile areas of the Himalayas, North-east, Western Ghats and the coastal region.
Prepared by India's Network for Climate Change Assessment (INCCA), the report says "the net increase in annual temperatures in 2030 with respect to 1970s would range between 1.7 degree Celsius to 2.2 degree Celsius with extreme temperature increasing by 1 to 40 degree Celsius with maximum increase in coastal regions." …………………
Posco now looks to set up shop in Karnataka
Jayashree Nandi, TNN, Nov 17, 2010, 05.45am IST
While there were talks about the company being wooed by the state government, now land acquisition for the project is under way. Interestingly, the CS confirmed that the company would source one-third of the ore from ore-rich areas of the state………………….
The Posco question
PRAFUL BIDWAI
TWO giant metallurgical projects, both in Orissa. Both
promoted by big multinational corporations with tremendous influence. Both
opposed by environmental and tribal rights activists because they would
displace vulnerable people and destroy fragile ecosystems. Both backed strongly
by State-level and national lobbies that claim they would rapidly transform
backward Orissa.The Posco steel project and the Vedanta aluminium project ran a
parallel and close trajectory for years until mid-2010, when facts came to
national attention – local people and groups already knew – of Vedanta's
blatant violations of the Forest Conservation Act, the Environmental Protection
Act and the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition
of Forest Rights) Act, also known as the Forest Rights Acts (FRA), and these
began to be confirmed by committees appointed by the Ministry of Environment
and Forests (MoEF).
The N.C. Saxena committee, appointed by the MoEF to investigate
the FRA's implementation, ………
Under the Forest Land Right Act, one lakh 9 thousand 424
forest dwellers have been given Land Right Certificates in the state so far.
Action is underway to distribute Land Right Certificates to another 24 thousand
715 forest dwellers………………
Is Coal India
By SiliconIndia
Tuesday, 16 November 2010, 06:18 IST
Bangalore: "Nurturing Nature", the brand line
added to the new logo of the world's largest coal miner, Coal India, has
attracted many, but the firm is a long way from being an environment-friendly
company, reports Devjyot Ghoshal of Business Standard.
Top of Form
Despite its good show in the market, doubts are being raised
over what the company has actually achieved on the environmental ground. Given
the fact that the firm operates through eight subsidiaries each with its own
administration, CIL's overall green credentials are debatable.As per the estimates show, there is a total of 12,813.13 hectares of degraded forest
and 32,370.92 hectares of afforested area by all its subsidiaries while
72,821,660 trees were planted in total by all its subsidiaries…......................
Northeast Echoes
PATRICIA MUKHIM
ALARM bells sounded for Posco’s Rs 54,000 crore Orissa
project after a key environment ministry panel, the forest advisory committee,
recommended that forest clearance for the project be “temporarily withdrawn.”
The recommendation is a blow for the project which requires 1,173 hectares of
forest. The committee is expected to submit its recommendation to the ministry
on Monday…………………………………….
Upland Poverty and Climate Change: How can Forest Polices be made inclusive?
( For presentation in the ADB’s conference on “The
Environments of the Poor in the
Context of Climate Change and the Green Economy- Making
Sustainable Development
Inclusive” in New
Delhi
K K Kaushal1
For the world’s poor, policies to mitigate and adapt to
climate change, have as
much impacts as climate change itself. Climate change poses
a risk to upland poor and
marginalized communities not only through its physical
impact, but also through policy
responses to its real or perceived threats (Prowse and
Peskett, 2008). Environmental
change is happening and the decisions we make now will
influence our ability to adapt
now and in the future. Encouragingly, the impacts of
mitigation and adaptation measures
are receiving high level policy attention. Buried within the
“Bali Road
sub-clause referring to the need to consider the ‘economic
and social consequences of
response measures.
In the forestry sector, development pathways which aim to
restock the forests……..
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