Rural Development Secretary Chandrashekhar conducted a one-day workshop of Jharkhand Watershed Scheme at SIRD, Ranchi through video conferencing on Thursday. He instructed all 28 project implementations to achieve the target under the project by doing quality work.
The Secretary directed that
Three decades since the initiation of decentralised governance, and more than a decade since the first community forest resource right was recognised in Maharashtra, forest-dwelling communities still have limited space in decision-making about their forest resources. This article describes three cases from Maharashtra where bureaucratic overreach has impeded emerging forest