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Naxalites are a Communist fringe group that has taken to arms to fight the state and central governments in some parts of the country.

Evidently the MoEEF is miffed that the court would not agree to its choice of experts to the FAC.

The court-appointed amicus curiae Harish Salve wants inclusion of independent experts like Belinda Wrights and Bittoo Sehgal in the FAC, but the ministry is stalling.

It is such reputed authorities who are being rubbished by the MoEF as lay persons who have no business to tell it what it should do and what it should not.

Any activity which requires the diversion of forest land for non-forest use must first be cleared by the MoEF. This is clearly specified in the procedures prescribed in the Forest Conservation Act, 1980.

But then this process also stipulates a role for the Forest Advisory Committee (FAC) before the grant of clearance. The MoEF refers every proposal with complete documentation to the FAC, and the committee then takes a view on certain parameters.

Given that forest lands are diverted for all kinds of industrial use these days, provoking clashes with those living on forest produce, one can perhaps understand the frustration of the mandarins while dealing with experts who have axe to grind, it is pointed out.

In fact the growing Naxalism in certain forest tracts is often directed against the disenfranchisement of forest-dependent population by overbearing forest officials, critics say.

But the ministry seems convinced to think the problem lies elsewhere, with the messengers that is.

The MoEF bristled, "advocates, who are experts in law not in forestry, and social activists, who may espouse social causes without any background of scientific issues that may have given rise to that issue, have tried to influence hearings in the cases through submissions on aspects which are in the domain
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