Orissa: Revoke The Illegal Forest Clearance To POSCO: Stop Lying To This Country’s People

Orissa: Revoke The Illegal Forest Clearance To POSCO: Stop Lying To This Country’s People   That the Indian Government has finally granted forest clearance to the POSCO project in Orissa shows once again that the MoEF lacks the political will to implement the Forest Rights Act in right earnest; in fact, the clearance letter issued today by the Minister of Environment and Forests, Mr Jairam Ramesh, makes explicit that the Government will not pay even scant heed to the laws of the land. The way...

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