The Significance Of The Vedanta Decision

The Significance Of The Vedanta Decision   The rejection of Vedanta's application for permission to mine in Niyamgiri, Orissa, is being hailed as a step forward and a change in the country's policy discourse. It is indeed all that; but it is crucial to understand why.   The project's main problem was that it violated the Forest Rights Act's provisions requiring “recognition of habitat and community forest rights” and the consent of the gram sabha prior to taking forest land. This sounds like...

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