Forest land cannot be diverted for Vedanta project, says Centre
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Justifying the cancellation of the environmental clearance granted to
Vedanta for the Lanjigarh Bauxite mining project in Odisha, the Ministry of
Environment and Forests (MoEF) on Friday said that forest land cannot be
diverted under the provisions of the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional
Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006.

In its affidavit filed in the Supreme Court, the MoEF said: “The diversion
of forest land on the proposed mining site of the Lanjigarh bauxite mining
lease is violative of the fundamental rights of the Dongria Kondh tribals
as well as the spirit of Forest Rights Act especially for the vulnerable
tribal groups such as the Dongria Kondh and thus cannot be allowed for this
reason alone.”

It said: “More than 7 sq. km. of the sacred undisturbed forests on top of
the mountain, where the proposed mining lease area of the Lanjigarh bauxite
mining lease is located has been protected for centuries by the Dongria
Kondh, a primitive tribal group [now termed as particularly vulnerable
tribe] as sacred to their deity. Diversion of these sacred areas for mining
will undermine the customary rights of the Dongria Kondhs to protect their
sacred places of worship and thereby amount to a violation of their
fundamental right to manage their own affairs in the matter of religion and
fundamental right to conserve the culture of their own. It was also in
direct violation further of the specific provisions of the Forest Rights
Act.”

According to the Orissa Mining Corporation, which filed the writ petition,
the then Minister of State for MoEF, Jairam Ramesh, passed an order,
withdrawing the environmental clearance just a day before the Council of
Ministers was reshuffled. It said that no mandatory notice was given before
such withdrawal. The then Minister withdrew the clearance despite knowing
that the matter was sub judice and that the Supreme Court issued notice
three months ago on a writ petition. It sought quashing of the order. The
Centre filed its response on this petition.

The Centre said: “The Lanjigarh bauxite mining lease is located in
Scheduled Areas as referred to in Clause (1) of Article 244 of the
Constitution. Circumscribing or extinguishing of forest rights in such
areas shall be in conformity with the provisions of the clause-5 of the
Fifth Schedule to the Constitution.

“Section 5 of the 2006 Act inter alia provides that the holders of the
forest right, Gram Sabha and village level institutions in areas, where
there are holders of any forest rights under this Act, are empowered to
ensure that habitat of forest dwelling Scheduled Tribes and other
traditional forest dwellers is preserved from any form of destructive
practices affecting their cultural and natural heritage.”

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