Jungle Outreach
Khalid Bashir Gura attended one such meeting between the experts and the residents in a forest to understand the issues and the remedies that the FRA suggests
People came in hoards to tell their story to the visiting forest committee from the Government of India. KL Image: Bilal Bahadur
On a balmy April afternoon at Mujpathri, a high-altitude village in Budgam, people gathered to discuss the Forest Rights Act (FRA) with officials from the Ministry of Tribal Affairs who were at the hamlet to assess the implementation of the FRA. They were on their last leg of the tour. The expert group had already assessed the situation prevailing in Kupwara, Anantnag and Khansahib, another belt of Budgam.
Efforts from Ministry of Tribal Affairs help tribal women pave way for their economic development
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Tribal Affairs Ministry trains Jharkhand tribal women to become Aatmanirbhar
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New Delhi: Under a joint initiative by the Ministry of Tribal Affairs (MoTA) and the national industry body, ASSOCHAM, around 1000 tribal artisans from all across the country would be trained under the Tribal Entrepreneurship Development Programme
The training program for the tribal master trainers under the Tribal Entrepreneurship Development Program (TEDP) initiative has begun with 20 tribal artisans getting trained in Jharkhand. These master trainers would then be training the other tribal artisans.
Launched on February 2, this is a 21-day training program at Jharkhand, where the women are learning to professionally paint Khovar and Sohrai forms of paintings.
According to one of the trainers who have been identified to provide the training programs to paint professionally explains that most of the women artisans have never held a brush in their lives, but are well versed in the techniques of painting. “These tribal artisans used to paint pictures on the mud walls of their
Who Will Guard the Guardians? State Accountability in India s Environmental Governance
Effective public accountability is a prerequisite for protecting India s environment and the environmental human rights of all Indians. However, the question of what factors promote the accountability of public institutions remains under-researched in India. The recent and ongoing attempts by the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change to undermine environmental regulations beg a fundamental question that has yet to be debated adequately: Who will guard the guardians? In this essay, we discuss the importance of divided administrative jurisdictions for fostering relations of accountability in public institutions. Specifically, we highlight the divided jurisdiction that the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006 creates in the regulation of mining and other non-forestry activities in forest areas and its implications for bolsterin