draft National Forest Policy 2018

Union HRD minister Prakash Javadekar. Credit: PTI

India’s Forests, and Their Peoples, Are Caught Between Two Ministries

C.R. Bijoy 30/07/2021

In 2006, authority on matters of the rights of...

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Don’t Understand CPWD’s U-Turn on Wood Use? Try Modi Govt’s Climate Doublespeak.

Madhu Ramnath 12/08/2020

It seems all arguments for India's future ecological path...

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Of the Classes of Environmental Regulation, Grasslands Are Poorest of the Poor

Ria Singh Sawhney and Sugandha Yadav 29/09/2019

The Government of India has used the prompt to...

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An Anti-Forest Policy: Rhetoric or Sleight of Hand?

Madhu Ramnath, Ashish Kothari 23/04/2018

If the government really meant what it said by...

Eucalyptus trees in Munnar, Kerala. Credit: vijay_chennupati/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

National Forest Policy Draft 2018 Takes One Step Forward, Two Steps Back

Sushant Agarwal 02/04/2018

This is not the first time the 1988 forests...