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130 months ago
Dilip Banerjee [Sic. Another nail by Modi Govt in th coffin of India !!!!]
GREEN COVER
A short history of India’s two-decade struggle to define what a forest actually is
Nayantara Narayanan • 12 May 2015
Defining a forest has far-reaching ecological and socia Read more ... l ramifications. Will the current government give short shrift to the environment as it comes up with a final definition?
Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar last week announced that the Indian government would soon issue a statutory definition of forests. At present, the country has no such definition despite governments and courts having made several unsuccessful attempts over almost two decades at providing one. The definition has a direct impact on forest and biodiversity conservation, implementation of tribal rights, land acquisition and land diversion for non-forest use.
In a televised interview, Javadekar said that “notified forests and those with good canopy [tree cover] will be defined as forest”. The statement immediately raised concern about whether plantations and urban green belts, with less green cover, would be excluded and opened up for commercial or industrial activity. Whatever the final definition, the Environment Ministry has to take into account the vastly different ecological conditions across the country and feedback from all states and union territories.
The Indian Forest Act of 1927 does not define forests, though forest areas have been legally notified under it as reserve forest, protected forest or village forest. The watershed Forest Conservation Act of 1980 made central government approval mandatory before diverting forestland for non-forest use.
Watershed case
The debate over defining a forest came to the fore in 1996 with the Supreme Court ruling in the case of TN Godavarman Thirumulpad vs Union of India. The case began as a petition to stop illegal felling of timber in the Nilgiri hills but expanded into an overhaul of the Indian forest policy. The Supreme Court said that forests would be defined by their “dictionary meaning”, without elaborating what this meaning was. It also assumed responsibility for implementing the Forest Conservation Act with this new definition.
The court ordered all non-forest activity like sawmills and mining to be suspended in forest areas and stopped felling of trees. It kept the Godavarman case open using the device of a “continuing mandamus” and heard hundreds of matters related to the implementation of the Forest Conservation Act. The ruling excluded the lower courts from admitting such application, leaving the Supreme Court the sole administrator of the law when it came to forest matters. This was until the creation of the National Green Tribunal in 2010 to “dispose of cases relating to environmental protection and conservation of forests and other natural resources”.
While the apex court has been both commended for taking such dramatic action to stop indiscriminate destruction of forests and criticised for overstepping its boundaries, the Godavarman case has gone on to show how essential it is to define forests.
In its 1996 ruling, the court had asked states to identify, demarcate and notify forest areas. Even 18 years later, many states have failed to do so. While hearing a case in 2014 of whether a hotmix plant should be allowed to operate in Manda Khal village in Uttarakhand, the National Green Tribunal noted the state government’s failure to chalk out its deemed forests.
Conflicting interests
In 2007, the Environment Ministry under the United Progressive Alliance government held consultations with environment groups and came up with several options for a definition of forest. Some included all areas important for ecological security. Others took livelihood and social issues into account. At the time, environmental activists supported not having a forest definition and the flexibility it afforded, given the different development and conservation needs across the country.
Defining forest will determine which tracts of land will need the Environment Ministry’s approval before being diverted for infrastructural or industrial purposes under the Forest Conservation Act. Equally importantly, it will signal to industry what land it can use without the government’s environmental nod. Defining forest can determine which tribal groups will get benefits and claims settled under the Forest Rights Act and which groups won’t.
‘No go’ zones
The task of defining a forest is only the first step in trying to resolve forest regulation issues. The second is to define what part of forests can be opened up to non-forest activity. Congress minister Jairam Ramesh tried to curb illegal coal mining using a classification of “go” and “no-go” zones that made about 35% of forest area out of bounds for coal mining. His successor Jayanthi Natarajan tried to define “inviolate” forests to the same end of keeping them out of reach of coal miners. Inviolate forests were to be determined on six criteria – forest density, forest type, the level of fragmentation, biodiversity richness, wildlife value and hydrological value. Both Ramesh and Natarajan’s attempts were short-lived after pressure from industry lobbies and other arms of the government.
More recently, the TSR Subramanian Committee, constituted by the government to look into revamping India’s six environment laws, suggested that inviolate forests should be those already notified as protected areas and forests that have 70% or more canopy cover. This approach however opens up close to 90% of India’s forests, which are not that dense, to polluting projects. The committee also observed that plantations be left out of the definition of forests, noting that private citizens were often reluctant to undertake social forestry for fear that their land would then be declared a forest needing approvals from the government for non-forest use.
Javadekar’s statement indicates that the ministry is likely to take the Subramanian committee’s view that good canopy constitutes good forest. That could leave less dense forests, scrubland and desert land that are equally important open to exploitation.
http://scroll.in/article/726461/a-short-history-of-indias-two-decade-struggle-to-define-what-a-forest-actually-is
131 months ago
Dilip Banerjee FRAGILE ECOSYSTEM
An island in the Sunderbans has shrunk to half its size in 37 years, creating thousands of climate refugees
India is losing land – 9,990 hectares have disappeared in the past decade.
Nayantara Narayanan
Mar 14, 2015
India is losi Read more ... ng land in the Sundarbans. Recent satellite analysis by the Indian Space Research Organisation shows that 3.71% of the mangrove and other forests in the area have disappeared along with 9,990 hectares of landmass to erosion in the past decade.
The forest in West Bengal, which is contiguous with the Bangladesh Sundarbans, is an immensely fragile ecosystem and one of the biggest threats to it is climate-change driven sea level rise. But the small islands on the fringe of the Sundarbans have been shifting, shrinking and disappearing, leaving a trail of climate refugees for more than 40 years and from other human interventions.
Ghoramara island
Tuhin Ghosh of the School of Oceanographic Studies at Jadavpur University has been studying changes to the tiny islands that dot the mouth of the Hugli river. In a study published last year, Ghosh and his co-researchers found that between 1975 and 1990, islands like the Lohachara and Bedford Islands disappeared from their original location. Another small landmass, Ghoramara island, provides the most telling case of vanishing land and displaced people. Satellite images show that in 1975 Ghoramara had a total area of 8.51 s km, which shrunk to just 4.43 sq km in 2012. "Everywhere there is sharp cutting of the river banks, chunks of mainland are being diplaced from the mainland and getting submerged," Ghosh said.
With thousands being pushed off the islands its population growth dropped to 0.55% per year while the overall growth of the admnistrative block in which it is located is about 2.1%. Neighbouring Sagar Island took in the refugees from the vanishing islands and at least five Ghoramara villages with the result that its population growth outpaced the expected trend between the years 1981 and 1991.
Figure: Island Erosion and Afflicted Population: Crisis and Policies to Handle Climate Change (T. Ghosh, R. Hajra, A. Mukhopadhyay)
The question of how many people have been displaced from Ghoramara is a tough one because there have been no actual government records but most people in the area are of the opinion that some 4,000 people have left. The island residents faced with their disappearing lands and livelihoods depend on faith in the local gods, since there is no official policy for adapting to the changes.
Ghoramara and its neighbouring submerged islands are about 20 kilometeres up the river. The loss of their landmass is not driven just by rising sea levels whose most drastic effects would have been seen lower downstream. Instead, said Ghosh, the engineering interventions to revive Haldia port in the 1980s and the resulting water diversion may be playing out here. "There may be some effect of sea level rise but there is more of an impact from the change of the river hydrodynamic condition created by the guidewall," Ghosh said.
A case has been filed in the National Green Tribunal about human interventions in the Sundarbans, like illegal construction of buildings and infrastructure. The ISRO study showing a loss of almost 10,000 hectares of land in the past decade came out of an NGT order for a satellite analysis of the area to determine violations. "There is unauthorised construction, there are illegal encroachments of brick kilns and shrimp farming," said Subhash Datta, amicus curae in the case. " If we can't arrest these things then the pressure on the land will become even more adverse."
http://scroll.in/article/713202
132 months ago
Mulam Tulsiyani MR. PM
i think first i wish you about morning because first meet is always morning,in the campiagn of delhi election you claim that if in centre and state same party government taking place then co-ordinating nicely because the mutual understanding t Read more ... aking place in this condition but verdict goes againts you even today i saw a news about delhi police commisioner mr. bassi invoke(talab) by you about some stolen complaints in religious and educational place in delhi(non BJP government territory) region are you taking this step because of kejri or your commitment and place, if rest of kejri is reason so what is your vision about madhya pradesh(third respectively BJP government), now i come to the point i am complaining to local body(bhopal collector office jansunvai) on 30/08/2013 about some anti social elements they make some illegal overrun on najul land under the religous flag,after that local body assure me,we are investigate about that and take approtiate step if your complaint is right and give me the date of 15 days then after they are in luxury period nothing investigation taking place for same then after i approach to them for same on 01/10/2013 they issue me the complaint number 22494,then after 12/02/2014 with complaint number 23401,then after 10/06/2014 new complaint number 23911,again i approach for same on 26/08/2014 newly complaint number 24699,very recently on 10/02/2015 they issue me new complaint number 25913 with ery cold remarks(we are now investigate your complaint) what a co-incident taking place they are very busy again that means, no action now i am faid up from all these,there is a law under IPC SECTION 182 of false complaint if found on me, but i don't know about the IPC SECTION on government employee if he is not taking right path of administration,please cross check my all complaints on government website- http://www.dic.mp.nic.in/bhopal/jansunvai
i think you are more busy then our local administration(bhopal collector) even they are fail to deliver us justice,so for that reason shall we are hope for such action after intermediating you,sir please be serious about complaints other wise every land becomes the delhi zone because of no action land by superiors please for give me if i say something extra or long i rwally respect you since your CMship of gujrat,one suggestion please (adhi ko chodkar kar puri ko jaye woh adhi se bhi jaye) first of all strongly hold your fort which you have then after go for another one please always your follower DR. HARI BHAI CONTACT NUMBER IS +919300819863 and +919425011938
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134 months ago
TechCrunch India's Saavn reaches 11 million monthly users of its music streaming service
Saavn, 'India's Spotify', Reveals It Has 11M Monthly Users And Hires Ex-Google Exec
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It's looking like 2015 will be a big year for India's music streaming space. Fresh after Rdio's arrival in the country, Saavn -- a New York based startup that was among the first to cater to India -- is pushing its credentials after hiring former Goo Read more ... gle India executive and startup figure Mahesh Narayanan as its COO.
134 months ago