Tuesday, January 02, 2007

TRIBAL NIGHTS, & RITES

WHO SAID TRIBALS DO NOT UNDERSTAND PROPERTY RIGHTS?
Normally, you won’t find the Ministry of Environment, animal rights and green activists in the same corner during a policy bout. Suddenly, they are batting for each other. And the reason is the controversial Tribal Bill that has been approved by the Union Cabinet and is being placed in the Parliament. If the Bill is passed, the new law will grant a few acres of land to each family that has been living in the forests. Suddenly, babus in the Environment Ministry (who have happily allowed criminals and assorted Mafia to plunder India’s forests for decades) have discovered that they need to protect India’s forests.

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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2006

An IIPM and Malaya Chaudhuri – Arindam Chaudhuri Initiative

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