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Tripura: Security forces destroy ganja cultivation worth ₹27 crore on fore
Updated : 3 months, 3 weeks ago IST
Acting on specific intelligence inputs, a joint team conducted raids and search operations from 7:45 am to 5:00 pm on January 29 in the forest areas of Kamalanagar, Krishnadola, Dulunga and Bijoy Nagar. During the operation, security personnel detected and destroyed 41 ganja plantation pl
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SC questions Uttarakhand govt on forest land encroachment
Updated : 4 months, 2 weeks ago IST
The Supreme Court on Monday questioned the Uttarakhand government on what it had done against those who had encroached on thousands of hectares of forest land and slammed the authorities for sitting as silent spectator.
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SC slams Uttarakhand govt for sitting as "silent spectator" to forest land
Updated : 5 months ago IST
The Supreme Court on Monday slammed the Uttarakhand government authorities for sitting as "silent spectators" while large-scale encroachment and illegal grabbing of forest land by private entities took place infront of their eyes.
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NGT Directs Action to Protect Forest Land in South Delhi
Updated : 6 months, 1 week ago IST
The Tribunal directed the concerned authorities to secure the forest land with proper fencing or natural hedges. Display boards warning against trespassing. Also undertake tree plantation using the Miyawaki method to develop dense forest cover.
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Shimla DC chairs meeting with SDMs and DFOs, reviews demarcation of forest
Updated : 7 months, 3 weeks ago IST
A video conference meeting chaired by Deputy Commissioner Anupam Kashyap was held in Shimla district.
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Himachal CM urges PM Modi to "amend Forest Laws" to support disaster-affec
Updated : 7 months, 3 weeks ago IST
Sukhu emphasised that approximately 68% of the state's land is registered as forest land, making it crucial to revisit these laws to provide relief.
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Himachal CM visits disaster-affected areas in Sujanpur Constituency of Ham
Updated : 7 months, 3 weeks ago IST
Himachal CM Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu visited disaster-hit Sujanpur in Hamirpur, announcing Rs 7 lakh for house construction and Rs 70,000 for essentials. With local MLA support, each family will get Rs 8.7 lakh. He said safe forest land transfer will be raised with Centre.
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"The hot pursuit continues": Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma announces reclai
Updated : 9 months ago IST
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma's eviction drive against illegal encroachments escalates with 26 hectares reclaimed in Rengma Reserve Forest. This follows earlier operations freeing land in Biswanath and Uriamghat as part of a sustained state-wide crackdown.
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Assam CM hails Gauhati HC order on forest encroachment, says more eviction
Updated : 9 months ago IST
"The Guwahati High Court has delivered a historic judgement. The Chief Justice of Guwahati High Court said that the government should bring a stern regulation to prevent new encroachment. The government should take action against those government officers under whose watch a large-scale encr
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Himachal CM seeks Union govt's aid for land, forest act relaxation for dis
Updated : 9 months, 1 week ago IST
Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu on Saturday urged the Union government to provide at least one bigha of land to families whose homes and farmlands have been washed away in the ongoing monsoon disaster, and to relax provisions of the Forest Conservation Act, 1980, to ma
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Himachal HC strikes down encroachment regularisation law, declares section
Updated : 9 months, 2 weeks ago IST
The provision, introduced in 2002 to regularise encroachments on government and forest lands, was declared arbitrary and ultra vires to the Constitution.
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Assam: First phase of eviction drive in Golaghat's Rengma Reserve Forest c
Updated : 9 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Over five days, vast stretches of encroached forest land have been reclaimed, with illegal structures dismantled across key high-density zones including Bidyapur, Pithaghat, Sonaribeel, Doyalpur, Dolonipathar, Kherbari, Anandapur, and Madhupur.
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