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Empower communities to fix forest governance

Tardy devolution of rights under FRA and issues undermining gram sabhas’ capabilities to exercise these rights wherever recognised need to be addressed

Apart from having wider environmental implications, forest degradation also poses a real challenge to forest-based livelihoods (Photo by Sunil Ghosh / Hindustan Times

Published on Sep 05, 2024 09:09 PM IST

ByGautam Aredath, Sharachchandra Lele

The (un)scientific temper of India | Opinion

Despite embracing advanced technologies, Indians are unable to think scientifically

The absence of a scientific understanding of the virus and the need for physical distancing could accentuate the crisis(Satyabrata Tripathy/HT Photo)

Updated on Mar 29, 2020 08:39 PM IST

ByPrajval Shastri & Sharachchandra Lele

There’s little evidence to show FRA is leading to large-scale deforestation

Instead of blindly opposing it, conservationists must demand sincere implementation of the forest law

The first right FRA confers is individual forest rights (IFRs) to habitation and cultivation. The critics of FRA assailed it as a forest give-away. Some of them even took the maximum limit on IFRs (four hectares), and multiplied it by the number of scheduled tribe families in India to declare that millions of hectares of forest would be lost.(HT FILE PHOTO)

Published on Jul 15, 2019 08:12 PM IST

BySharachchandra Lele and MD Madhusudan

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