Conserving the forest
State sponsored deforestation was totally stopped by 1993 in East Godavari Kondareddy tribes habitat | |||||||
Forcing the closure of wood based industry | |||||||
![]() Prof. Christoph von Furer Haimendorf in Tribes of India: Struggle for Survival, Oxford University Press 1982 |
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The East Godavari Forest working plan proposed the virgin forests of Rampa and Gudem Agencies and an area of 80,780 hectares was earmarked for selection working on 20 year felling cycle. The factory started working from 1976 and worked on 9 of the 20 coupes. Political Economy of State Property and the Commons Forests of the Rampa Country of South India, Prof. D.Narasimha Reddy, University of Hyderabad. Paper presented in the fifth annual common Property conference on "Reinventing the Commons", International Association for the Study of Common Property Bodo, Norway 24-28 May. 1995. |
Tribal youth celebrating the High Court order preventingfelling of fruit bearing trees before Godavari Ply Wood factory, Rampachodavaram - May 1987 |
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TRIBALS TREK TO SAVE GODAVARI DELTA FORESTS - C Lokeswara Rao - Times of India April 30, 1991 One of the common complaints about denudation is that it is carried out with the "protection" of government agencies like the forest department. At one level, the government winks at cutting of trees on a scale magnified several times over the number mentioned in permits. At another level, permits are issued in violation of forest department’s rules or in defiance of the spirit of conservation which ought to gride the department. It is to Sakti’s credit that it has documented such violations and anomalies extensively. Motivated people in many villages to report such vilations to prevent tree cutting in the first place and fought legal battles right up to the high court. One of Sakti’s major campaigns was against a plywood unit which had been allotted 60,000 hectares of reserved forest at a rate of Rs.70 per cubic metre. The open market rate for mango trees, which accounted for 80 per cent of feelings by the unit, was Rs.1,500. SAKTI generated over 300 complaints about trees that had been cut or marked for felling in violation of rules. Felling Rules and Silvicultural practices stipulated as follows. Only matured or dying trees were to be felled. Jeelugu (Caryota urens) palm, trees yielding minor forest produce like tamarind or cane brakes, creepers were not to be touched. A gap of 20 meters from a stream. Cutting a tree was not allowed if it would disturb the canopy. Complaints citing instances of violation of the above rules saved many trees. At one stage the high cour which lifted a stay obtained by Sakti stipulated that fruit trrees should not be cut. Around this time the government of Andhra Pradesh revised the rate charged for trees allotted to the unit. The revision was contested in courts and cutting of trees has been stopped pending disposal of this litigation. |
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MARKING AND FELLING RULES - Forest Working Plan, East Godavari Dist 27.0 Marking should be done for retention and felling separately. It should be completed by February so that felling can be commenced from April onwards. Following rules should be followed while marking.
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Conserving the forest
State sponsored deforestation was totally stopped by 1993 in East Godavari Kondareddy tribes habitat
- Forcing the closure of wood based industry
- TRIBALS TREK TO SAVE GODAVARI DELTA FORESTS
- MARKING AND FELLING RULES
- Letters - CENTRE FOR ECOLOGICAL SCIENCES, INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE, BANGLORE - 560012.
- A.P.High Court ruled that the government of India permission is mandatory to fell the trees in the forest -- much before the Supreme Court taken up the matter in T.N.Godavarman case. Order in W.P.M.P. No.6021 of 1995.
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SAKTI was a member of expert committee to define forests:
- GPL continuing efforts to fell the forests - MINUTES OF THE MEETING ON RE-OPENING OF GODAVARI PLYWOODS LTD..
- letter to the Dist Collector, Kakinada from Sri S D.Mukherji.l.F.S.,Prl.Chief Conservator of Forests,Aranya Bhavan, A.P.Hyderabad. Sub: Forest Department - Supply of timber to M/s.Godavari Plywood Ltd.,- Reg.
- CHECKING FELLING OF PRIVATE FORESTS
- THE REPORT OF THE DISTRICT COLLECTOR
- GO SPELLS DOOM TO FORESTS
- GOVERNMENT OF ANDHRA PRADESH ENERGY FOREST ENVIRONMENT SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT, MEMO.NO.20940/For.III/90-I, Dated: 20-08-1990. Sub:- A.P.Forest Act. 1967 - Amendment issued to Sec.28 B and 28 of Chapter III-A of the Act. - Amendment to G.O.Ms.No.210, Energy Forests Environment Science & Technology Department, Dt.20-07-1988 - orders - stayed.
- Govt vacates stay on felling trees
- State Govt helping timber ‘smuggler’?
- HC stays felling of trees in Chintalpudi forest
- AP VERDICT FAVOURS ENVIRONMENTALISTS
- Forest Laws in Andhra Pradesh
- MINING OF NON-TRIBALS CANCELLED, GOVERNMENT OF ANDHRA PRADESH, REVENUE (ASSIGN.III) DEPARTMENTMemo No.769/Assign.III9i) 90 Dated: 25-01-1990.
- MINUTES OF THE MEETING HELD BY THE CHIEF SECRETARY TO GOVERNMENT ON 27-10-89 AT 3.30 P.M., IN THE CHAMBERS OF THE CHIEF SECRETARY ANDHRA PRADESH.
- MINING LEASES TO NON-TRIBALS SACROSANCT- Indian Express – November 11, 1990
- Mining in forest land State ‘violates’ Central rules- Indian Express dated 17-03-1993
- IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE : ANDHRA PRADESH ,AT HYDERABAD, 26-03-1993, PRESENT: : THE HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE SUBHASHAN REDDY W.P.M.P. NO.4786/1993.
- HC INVALIDATES MINING LEASES - The Hindu Saturday August 28 1993
- Mining operations in Burra Grm Panchayat stayed - The Hindu, August 28-1993.
- Forest Laws in Andhra Pradesh- by K.Lakshmi Narasimha, Advocate, High Court of A.P.,ALTR Publications - 1996.
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FORESTS ARE RESERVOIRS OF WATER AND LUNGS OF OUR ENVIRONMENTS.
SAVE THEM FROM MINING AND DESTRUCTION.
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