Context:
The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed the Centre to create a comprehensive policy for the management of sacred groves across the country.
Key Highlights:
- Sacred grove is small patches of the tree maintained by local communities for sacred and cultural purposes.
- These small forests are found chiefly in Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka, and Maharashtra.
- This is recommended out of the petition presented on the vanishing of groves in Rajasthan.
- The direct motivation with such rights in communities regarding direct enhancement of these forest patches was provided by the National Forest Policy of 1988.
