‘Draft forest policy detrimental to interests of tribal people’
- | Monday | 13th August, 2018
Terming joint forest management as official orders, he said all forest rights in the Clause V of Schedule V should be changed in favour of girijans. “The draft policy has mentioned ‘girijan’ only once. Sastry said the draft policy created apprehensions of taking away the benefits of the 1988 Act. The draft makes a casual reference to the RoFr as though it was subordinate to the Joint Forest Management (JFM),” he said. The policy, which has been put in the public domain to elicit views, proposes to launch community forest management mission (CFMM) to manage the resources though a participatory approach.
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