Goa Govt Holds Camps to Fast-Track Forest Rights Claims of Tribals

Goa govt holds camps to fast-track forest rights claims of tribals

Goa govt holds camps to fast-track forest rights claims of tribals

Goa holds camps to fast-track forest rights claims for tribal communities

Panaji: The Goa government on Sunday organised camps across six talukas to assist tribal and forest-dwelling communities in resolving long-pending claims under the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006. Goa chief minister Dr Pramod Sawant had recently announced that all the pending cases under the Act would be disposed off by December 19… Source

The Great Illusion: How Misframed Adivasi Forest Rights Threaten Culture and Conservation ?

When Adivasi land rights are framed as tickets to government handouts, both cultural traditions and nature conservation hang in the balance, explains Dipika Adhikari, Twocircles.net  The Rajwar peoples find themselves at a crossroads in a quiet and tucked-away village within the folds of Uttarakhand’s Askot Wildlife Sanctuary. Officially identified as Van Rajis, a Particularly Vulnerable Tribal […]