Litmus test for govt as NAC gets specific on forest
rights
Efforts To Streamline FRA
Implementation Gain Steam
Nitin Sethi | TNN
It has been the most contentious of UPA’s flagship schemes for the aam admi. The government has never been sure if it wants the Forest Rights Act to really work, and Congress can’t make up its mind on whether it will gain anything from the act meant to return forestlands taken away illegally from tribals and others by the government. It has been a handy tool to make some pro-tribal noise as in the case of Vedanta but the government remains careful of implementing it without exception – for instance, giving gram sabhas the right to decide on allowing industrialists to use forests for private projects.
In this milieu of political ambiguity, the environment ministry set up a committee under N C Saxena to review the implementation of FRA and changes in the forestry sector. The committee was purportedly a joint one, with the tribal affairs ministry, but only so in name. The committee has recently submitted a report, which is representative of the confusion in the government over how far to go with the act. On the other hand, the National Advisory Council, headed by Sonia Gandhi, too is close to finalizing………………
It has been the most contentious of UPA’s flagship schemes for the aam admi. The government has never been sure if it wants the Forest Rights Act to really work, and Congress can’t make up its mind on whether it will gain anything from the act meant to return forestlands taken away illegally from tribals and others by the government. It has been a handy tool to make some pro-tribal noise as in the case of Vedanta but the government remains careful of implementing it without exception – for instance, giving gram sabhas the right to decide on allowing industrialists to use forests for private projects.
In this milieu of political ambiguity, the environment ministry set up a committee under N C Saxena to review the implementation of FRA and changes in the forestry sector. The committee was purportedly a joint one, with the tribal affairs ministry, but only so in name. The committee has recently submitted a report, which is representative of the confusion in the government over how far to go with the act. On the other hand, the National Advisory Council, headed by Sonia Gandhi, too is close to finalizing………………
Environment
ministry to decide Posco steel plant fate in a month
25 December 2010
The fate of the $12-billion
steel plant by South Korea's Posco, will be decided by Jairam Ramesh, the union
minister of environment and forests by the third week of January.The
controversial plant, first planned by the South Korean steel giant way back in
2005 – and which was ……………………………..
Coal
India
Sudheer Pal Singh / New Delhi
Says critical output targets
being hit; Plan panel agrees. Government-owned Coal India
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