As planning applications go, it would be fair to say that case #10/90250/FULODA, submitted to the London boroughs of Newham and Waltham Forest planning committees in May 2010, stood out somewhat.
An analysis guide along with a set of questionnaire was prepared to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the forest protection committees.
This paper describes a framework of criteria and indicators to evaluate the status of performance of the forest protection committees of India in managing community forests under the Joint Forest Management programme.
The framework consists of 3 principles, 6 criteria, 12 indicators and 18 verifiers and was applied for assessment of forest protection committees operating in south-west West Bengal, India.
Also, the forest management committee should focus on increasing investment in sustainable forest management.
As a consequence of selective rule enforcement and nepotism, the forest enforcement committee was not effective in safeguarding the forest, there by contributing to increased wood extraction and marketing by community members for income generation.
Because of concerns from Forest, the Senate committee released only 88 pages of the document, which may have originally run longer than 270 pages.
District officials and village environmental committees signed forest management agreements, setting out their respective rights and responsibilities.
This meant that all activities mediated by local administrations, including natural resource governance (e.g., forest user groups, CAMC committees), were biased in favour of those castes.
"The Himalayan economy here has been completely destroyed," said Anil Baluni, a spokesman for the Bharatiya Janata Party in Uttarakhand and former vice chairperson of the state forest and environment advisory committee.
Regarding the first point, it has to be mentioned that the contracts were introduced at the instigation of the State Forestry Agency Department in Jalal-Abad, and signed by the heads of the forest enterprise and the pasture committee, respectively.
