Environment ministry reiterates its stance on FRA compliance in forest land diversion

MoEFCC letter sent two days before SC stayed its order on rejected FRA claims

Fifty villages in Gadchiroli boycott polls, demanding forest rights

Separate Aheri district, basic facilities are other demands

Tribal ministry tells states to stop rejecting FRA claims on invalid grounds

In a letter dated June 27, Leena Nair, the then secretary, Ministry of Tribal Affairs had written to the chief secretaries of states raising …

MoTA’s job is FRA, not land diversion: DG Forest

Director General of Forest and Special Secretary at environment ministry says will take up matter with MoTA

Ahead of SC hearing on FRA, MoEF asks states to share “encroachment” data

Forest Survey of India requests for geo-referenced locations of encroachments, but many states ill-equipped to do so

Uprooted for the sake of compensatory afforestation

To compensate for forest land diversion for Parsa coal block, Chhattisgarh government identifies 16 villages without approval from gram sabhas

One in five voters in Odisha are tribals. But do they get their due?

Odisha's record in addressing forest rights is poorer than the national average, despite the Union Tribal Minister hailing from the state