Over 100 civil society organisations from 15 states have flagged several loopholes in the Centre’s draft National Forest Policy 2018 and qu...

While the ministry has done away with the environment cess that was proposed in the scrapped 2016 draft policy, it has retained several con...

Environment Minister Anil Madhav Dave said: "The Indian Institute of Forest Management was asked to prepare a draft National Forest Policy....

He was replying to a question on whether the Ministry has come out with a draft national forest policy proposing levy of green tax.

A new policy will come out after going through suggestions of these people. Best suggestions will be incorporated in the new policy," said ...

Best suggestions will be incorporated in the new policy," said an official.

India has unveiled a draft national policy to provide a roadmap for building comprehensive strategies for cutting carbon emissions from def...

India has unveiled a draft national policy to provide a roadmap for building comprehensive strategies for cutting carbon emissions from def...

Underlining importance of increasing forest cover, the MoEF took note of the fact that the present level of forest cover in India (69.20 mi...

Government seeks to move away from a command and control system to one based on self monitoring.

The ministry's draft lists criteria for identifying forest patches where mining should be banned following the GoM on coal's decision to ju...

If the environment ministry’s draft proposal for ‘inviolate forest areas’ is accepted, large swathes of healthy forests, including national...

Almost two decades after banking on a national forest policy, Goa has taken up the task to have a policy of its own in next six months.

The government has referred the draft national tribal policy, which aims to address issues like lower human development index and poor infr...