[Reader-list] People Forests and Mines, The Hindu SOE 2012

[Rajkamal Goswami]

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

Inability of traditional customary laws to cope up with present day
socio-political and economic realities coupled with the aggressive
pursuance of economic and industrial growth by the Federal Government
of India has led to the proliferation of large-scale unsafe and
unscientific mining activities, illegal timber felling and
deforestation in large areas of community forests of Meghalaya. Thus,
in the last two decades, many forests areas have either disappeared or
have been severely fragmented leaving, at the same time, many rivers
and streams polluted with toxic effluents from the mines and its
affiliated industries.

We try to articulate this and more in the article linked below. Do
share your feedback on the same.

http://rkgoswami.blogspot.in/2012/09/people-forests-and-mines-published-in.html

Warmly
Rajkamal

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