Rural communities win right over bamboo, finally
Submitted by rummykhan on Fri, 2011-04-01 09:30
A large crowd gathered at Mendha Lekha village in Maharashtra's Gadchiroli district in the morning on April 27 to witness a historic event. The state forest department handed over a transit passbook to the village community leader Devaji Tofa, signifying the village gram sabha would henceforth exercise the power to issue transit passes for selling bamboo harvested from the nearby forests.
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Apr 27, 2011
Publication Date:
27/04/2011