Forest policy: state control, privatization or decentralization
Sharachchandra Lele
Mint, June 19, 2019
“The draft NFP 2018 goes back to promoting
production forestry at the cost of local livelihoods and environmental
goals, and ignoring the FRA. The draft amendment,
without waiting for NFP 2018 to be ratified, goes many steps
further: strengthening police powers without strengthening
public oversight, promoting a new category called production
forest without justifying its need and not replacing the outdated
categories of RF and PF with CFRs.”