RSS affiliates want Centre to rethink stand on forest act, disinvestment, trade |
Less than a month after the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance government was sworn in for a second consecutive term, offshoots of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh are pressing for a rethink on the government`s disinvestment and trade policies, and on proposed amendments to the Indian Forest Act, 1927. A delegation of Vanvasi Kalyan Ashram met the Union minister for environment and forests Prakash Javadekar with a raft of complaints — principal among them that tribal communities do not fully understand the draft of amendments proposed to Indian Forest Act, 1927 as it was circulated in English, and the National Forest Policy, which is pending since 2017, should be resolved and notified before forest act is amended. “Any attempt to amend IFA before that will not be accepted by the nation as it will be against set practices for such legislative work and long vision,” VKA`s joint general secretary, Vishnu Kant, and central representative in Delhi, Suresh Kulkarni said in a representation to Javadekar. VKA also said the time allotted for feedback on the draft of the amendments — March 7 to June 8 — was not enough in an election year. “This process could start only after June 8 as the period consultation passed in general elections.
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