{"id":21351,"date":"2025-05-25T08:20:39","date_gmt":"2025-05-25T02:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=21351"},"modified":"2025-05-27T16:10:22","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T10:40:22","slug":"orans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/orans\/","title":{"rendered":"Orans"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Orans Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>Rajasthan has initiated the process for classifying the community-protected \u2018Oran\u2019 lands as forests in compliance with the Supreme Court\u2019s direction.<\/p>\n<h2>About Orans<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Orans are\u00a0<strong>traditional sacred groves<\/strong>\u00a0found in\u00a0<strong>Rajasthan<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>They are\u00a0<strong>patches of forests dedicated by villagers to different deities<\/strong>\u00a0as a socio-religious tradition and\u00a0<strong>managed by the rural communities.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Orans serve as\u00a0<strong>centers of socio-religious activity<\/strong>\u00a0for local communities. Festivals and fairs are held annually, often on specific dates, to honor these sacred places.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rajasthan\u00a0<\/strong>is home to about\u00a0<strong>25,000 \u2018Oran\u2019 lands<\/strong>\u00a0covering an area of 6 lakh hectares.<\/li>\n<li>\u2018Oran\u2019 land is\u00a0<strong>used by local communities for grazing, forest products, natural water filtration,\u00a0<\/strong>and for\u00a0<strong>livelihood opportunities\u00a0<\/strong>to promote the livestock economy.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Water bodies within the orans<\/strong>, such as\u00a0<strong>Talab (pond), Nadi (small pond), open wells,<\/strong>\u00a0and streams, are\u00a0<strong>crucial water resources for livestock and wildlife.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>In the Thar Desert, some orans have ancient\u00a0<\/strong>goverdhan\/shilalekh<strong>\u00a0(petrograph) near water bodies.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The area covered by an oran can range from a\u00a0<strong>few hectares to several hundred hectares.<\/strong>\u00a0For example, the\u00a0<strong>Bhadariya Mata Oran in Jaisalmer<\/strong>\u00a0district spans 17,821 hectares.<\/li>\n<li>Orans also form the\u00a0<strong>natural habitat fo<\/strong>r<strong>\u00a0India\u2019s most critically endangered bird, the Great Indian Bustard (GIB)<\/strong>, a protected species under the Wildlife Protection Act, which is also the State bird of Rajasthan.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The State\u2019s forest policy of 2023 gave the status of general community land to \u2018Orans\u2019, which was considered insufficient for their conservation as well as protection against encroachment and degradation.<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0<strong>Supreme Court recognised \u2018Oran\u2019 lands as forests under the Forest Conservation Act, 1980,<\/strong>\u00a0in a landmark judgment delivered on December 18, 2024.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Orans FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1<\/strong>. What are Orans?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Orans are traditional sacred groves found in Rajasthan.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2<\/strong>. Which critically endangered bird species is naturally protected in the Orans?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Great Indian Bustard<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3<\/strong>. Approximately how many Oran lands exist in Rajasthan?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. 25,000<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/epaper.thehindu.com\/ccidist-ws\/th\/th_delhi\/issues\/133245\/OPS\/GBQEDT492.1+GABEDT52J.1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TH<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Orans are traditional sacred groves in Rajasthan, preserved for religious and ecological reasons, playing a vital role in conserving biodiversity and local culture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":48141,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[551,21,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-21351","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-orans","9":"tag-prelims-pointers","10":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","11":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}