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Dr. R.C. Sharma highlighted aspects like prerequisites, opportunities,
challenges, action programme etc., through his opening presentation. Ecological,
socio-cultural and economic sustainability, appropriate entitlement regime,
non-destructive harvesting, value addition etc., were cited as prerequisites.
Tracibility, clarity in tenurial rights, improved income generation were
possible opportunities arising out of the process of certification. Challenges
included addressing wide and remote dispersion of collector's, definition of
sustainability, user conflicts etc. He
opined that poverty is a complex phenomenon and hence poverty may not be judged
solely by the income levels of the people. It is rather a question of
socio-cultural, economic and ecological well-being. He hoped that through
certification, the forest dependent people will have better prospects because
basic objective of the state is to unlock forest resources for enhanced
well-being of the people. |
