Forest Rights Act (FRA), 2006
The Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006 is the foundational law protecting the rights of tribal and other forest-dwelling communities over land and forest resources they have traditionally depended upon.
- Recognises both individual rights (cultivation/habitation) and community rights (grazing, collection of minor forest produce, community forest resource management)
- Empowers Gram Sabhas (village assemblies) to initiate, verify, and approve claims — making community consent a legal requirement before alienating forest land
- Protects forest dwellers from unlawful eviction and mandates settlement of rights before any diversion of forest land
- Applies to Schedule V areas, overlapping with PESA jurisdiction, thereby covering regions like Rayagada in Odisha
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