Institutional Roles
Ministry of Tribal Affairs vs Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change
The FRA is administered by the Ministry of Tribal Affairs (nodal ministry), while forest clearances for diverting forest land to non-forest use are processed under the Forest (Conservation) Act, 1980 by the MoEFCC — creating a jurisdictional split where two ministries oversee different, but linked, stages of the same land-use decision.
- Ministry of Tribal Affairs: rights recognition and FRA implementation oversight.
- MoEFCC: forest clearance process, Stage-I ("in-principle") and Stage-II (final) approvals under the FCA, 1980.
- The Forest Conservation Rules, 2022 amendments shifted more responsibility for certifying that forest-dweller rights have been settled onto state governments, occurring after in-principle central approval — a change forest-rights groups say weakens the gram sabha's practical leverage.
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