Ministry by ministry, India’s forest rights regime is fraying

The Committee on Public Undertakings proposing that the consent of a supermajority of gram sabhas should suffice in place of the consent of all gram sabhas affected by a project is the logical but unfortunate next step in the weakening of forest-dwellers’ rights

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