Forest Rights Act, 2006 (FRA)
The Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006 recognises the historical injustice done to tribal communities by colonial and post-colonial forest policies. It confers both individual and community forest rights on tribal communities and other traditional forest dwellers who have resided in and depended on forests for generations.
- Individual rights: right to cultivate and live on forest land occupied before December 13, 2005.
- Community rights: grazing rights, collection of minor forest produce (MFP), fishing, access to water bodies and pastures, and community forest resource management.
- Gram Sabha is the primary authority for initiating claims; Sub-Divisional Level Committee, District Level Committee, and State Level Monitoring Committee oversee the process.
- As of 2024, over 23 lakh individual forest rights titles have been distributed, but community forest rights remain severely under-implemented.
- Evictions without Gram Sabha consent and due process are prohibited under the Act.
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