Across indias forest areas, people are fighting for democracy, livelihood and dignity. Background for many years tribals encroaching forest lands were considered robbers, intruders and encroachers. Bilapaka, with a population of 480, was one of the 44 villages in the core and buffer areas of the tiger reserve whose community forest resource rights, better known as community forest rights cfr, were recognised in april, under the scheduled tribes and other traditional forest dwellers recognition of forest rights act, 2006, better known as the forest rights act fra. The scheduled tribes and other traditional forest dwellers recognition of forest rights act, 2006, is a key piece of forest legislation passed in india on 18 december 2006. Forest conservation, tribals and a decade of the forest. This act may be called the scheduled tribes and other. Rather the struggle to pass the act, and to keep the key elements intact, was fraught with intense. It has also been called the forest rights act, the tribal rights act, the tribal bill, and the tribal land act. Act, rules and guidelines ministry of tribal affairs. Parliament has enacted the scheduled tribes and other traditional forest dwellers recognition of forest rights act 2006 the act to undo the historical injustices suffered by tribal communities. To cure injustice caused by the indian forest act which took away all forest rights from the forest dwellers and tribal people the scheduled tribe and other traditional forest dwellers recognition of forest rights act, 2006 has been passed. Environment scheduled tribe and forest dwellers act 2006. Fra rights have destroyed forests, says study nagpur. Forest rights of forest dwelling schedules tribes and other traditional forest dwellers.
Recognition of forest rights act, 2006 peoples archive of rural. Forest rights scheduled tribes and other traditional forest dwellers recognition of forest rights act 2006 impact on forests. The scheduled tribes and other traditional forest dwellers recognition of forest rights act, 2006, is a key piece of forest legislation passed in india on 18. Scheduled tribes and other traditional forest dwellers recognition of forest rights act, 2006. Forest rights scheduled tribes and other traditional. Implementation of the scheduled tribes and other traditional forest dwellers recognition of forest rights act, 2006 and rules.
Part ii deals with the origin and development of fra. The scheduled tribes and other traditional forest dwellers recognition of rights act, 2006. The scheduled tribes and other traditional forest dwellers recognition of forest rights act 2006. Once again, the revised bill was also criticised, inter alia, on account of its failure to integrate the livelihood and conservation concerns. The dilution of the jpcs recommendations by the group of.
Dwellers recognition of forest rights act 2006 to correct the historical injustices suffered by the tribal communities. This paper presents the analysis of the scheduled tribes and other traditional forest dwellers recognition of forest rights act 2006 which is now known as fra forest right act. The forest rights act a weapon of democracy in the forests. Delay in afforestation act rules threatens tribals, forest. Under this act scheduled tribes and other traditional forest dwellers communities dependent on forest land of any description including undemarcated protected forests, demarcated protected forests, reserved. To strengthen and empower the local selfgovernment for. I suggest moving this page to indian forest rights act, forest rights act india or any other suitable page. Only about 28 per cent of the minimum potential for community forest rights in maharashtra has been recognised since the scheduled tribes and other traditional forest dwellers recognition of forest rights act of 2006 came into force. The scheduled tribes and other traditional forest dwellers recognition of forest rights act was enacted on december 29, 2006, and thereafter amended in 2012. Shimla to address historical injustice faced by the forestdependent communities in india, upa government had passed the scheduled tribes and other traditional forest dwellers recognition of forest rights act in 2006. An act to recognize and vest the forest rights and occupation in forests land in forest dwelling scheduled tribes and other traditional forest dwellers who have been residing in such forests for generations but whose rights could not be recorded. Scheduled tribes and other traditional forest dwellers have been illegally evicted or disp laced from forest land of any description without receiving their legal entitlement to rehabilitation prior to the th day of december, 2005.
Scheduled tribe and other traditional forest dwellers. A ray of hope dawned on the lives of the tribals only when the then government at the centre made a radical departure from what was known as an approach of forest bureaucracy and enacted the scheduled tribes and other traditional forest dwellers recognition of. The objective of the recently enacted scheduled tribes and other traditional forest dwellers recognition of forest rights act is to undo the. Users can find information about the state committees, forest claims and rights, tribal rights and rules etc. Recognition of community rights under forest rights act in. Im pretty sure that quite a few countries have similar laws which are similarly or colloquially called forest rights act.
Project on fra act 2006 the scheduled tribes and other. The scheduled tribes and other traditional forest dwellers recognition of forest rights act, 2006 no. The law concerns the rights of forest dwelling communities. Community forest rights cfr constituted just two per cent approx.
Under the indian forest act, areas were often declared to be government forests without recording who lived in these areas, what land they were using, what uses they made of the forest and so on. Jan 29, 2016 the scheduled tribes and other traditional forest dwellers recognition of forest rights act, 2006, is a key piece of forest legislation passed in india on 18 december 2006. It has won for the tribal forest people their long overdue rights over forest land. Tribes and other traditional forest dwellers recognition of forest rights bill, 2006 the revised bill. Forest rights scheduled tribes and other traditional forest. The scheduled tribes and other traditional forest dwellers recognition of forest rights act, 2006, is. Information about the scheduled tribes and other traditional forest dwellers, under the ministry of tribal affairs is provided. As passed by lok sabha on 15 th december 2006 bill no. On the ground, reports say, the process of implementation is facing several. The government of maharashtra appointed commissioner, tribal research and.
The scheduled tribes and other traditional forest dwellers recognition of forest rights act, 2006. The forest right act provides scope and historic opportunity for integrating the conservation of forest and wildlife with the livelihood rights of the scheduled tribes and other traditional forest dwellers. Pdf the scheduled tribes and other traditional forest. Around 1860, various marginalised castes and tribes in british provinces in india were all grouped together as depressed classes in order to provide them with socio. The act aims to provide a framework which recognizes and vests forest rights in forestdwelling tribes, and to foster a new forest conservation regime. What are called forests in indian law often have nothing to do with actual forests. Passage of the scheduled tribes and other traditional forestdwellers recognition of forest rights act, 2006 the forest rights act, 2006 by the parliament was proceeded by a yearlong high pitched campaign by rival lobbies of forest conservation and the tribal rights activists. Forest rights act, 2006 in himachal himachal watcher. In these rules, unless the context otherwise requires. The scheduled tribes and other traditional forest dwellers. Diversion of forest land for non forest purposes for facilities managed by the government under section 32 of the scheduled tribes and other traditional forest dwellers recognition of. Traditional forest dwellers recognition of forest rights.
Scheduled tribes and other traditional forest dwellers recognition of forest rights act, 20062 of 2007 under the notification of the government of india in the ministry of tribal affairs number g. The scheduled tribes recognition of forest rights bill, 2005 seeks to recognise forest rights of forest dwelling scheduled tribes fdsts who have been occupying the land before october 25, 1980. How did the indian forest rights act, 2006, emerge. Last week, the baiga tribe in madhya pradesh became among the earliest to receive habitat rights under the scheduled tribes and other traditional forest dwellers recognition of forest rights act, 2006, commonly known as the forest rights act fra. The members of the community of st who primarily reside in and who depend on forests or forest lands for bonafide livelihood needs and includes the st pastoral communities. Jan 01, 2018 scheduled tribes and other traditional forest dwellers recognition of forest rights act, 2006. Scheduled tribes and other traditional forest dwellers. Diversion of forest land for non forest purposes for facilities managed by the government under section 32 of the scheduled tribes and other traditional forest dwellers recognition of forest rights act, 2006. The scheduled tribes and other traditional forest dwellers recognition of forest rights act, forest rights act or just fra hereafter, enacted by the indian parliament in 2006, did not emerge from unproblematic and consensual deliberations. The scheduled tribes and other traditional forest dwellers recognition of forest rights act, 2006 or simply the forest rights act, came into force on the 31 december 2007, with the objective of recognizing and vesting the forest rights in forest dwelling scheduled tribes and other traditional forest dwellers who have been living in forests for generations but whose rights have only been respected through violation. Section 6 in the scheduled tribes and other traditional.
An fdst nuclear family would be entitled to the land currently occupied subject to a maximum of 2. A ray of hope dawned on the lives of the tribals only when the then government at the centre made a radical departure from what was known as an approach of forest bureaucracy and enacted the scheduled tribes and other traditional forest dwellers recognition of forest rights act, 2006. Oct 01, 2015 last week, the baiga tribe in madhya pradesh became among the earliest to receive habitat rights under the scheduled tribes and other traditional forest dwellers recognition of forest rights act, 2006, commonly known as the forest rights act fra. Tribes and other traditional forest dweller recognition of forest rights act, 2006. The law concerns the rights of forest dwelling communities to land and other resources, denied to them over. How community rights under the forest rights act could. This act may be called the scheduled tribes and other traditional forest dwellers recognition of forest rights act, 2006. The gram sabha shall be the authority to initiate the process for determining the nature and extent of individual or community forest rights or both that may be given to the forest dwelling scheduled tribes and other traditional forest dwellers within the local limits of its jurisdiction under this act by receiving claims, consolidating and verifying them and preparing a map delineating the. The scheduled tribes and other traditional forest dwellers recognition of forest rights act was enacted on december 29, 2006, and. The forest rights act aims to undo historic injustice done to the scheduled tribes and other traditional forest dwellers by recognising their traditional forest rights. The scheduled tribes and other traditional forest dwellers recognition of forest rights act, 2006 was enacted with the purpose of recognising the rights of the scheduled tribes and other traditional forest dwellers residing in forests for generations by conferring on them the rights to use the forest land for their bona fide livelihood needs.
Nov 09, 2011 this paper presents the analysis of the scheduled tribes and other traditional forest dwellers recognition of forest rights act 2006 which is now known as fra forest right act. A political economy analysis of fra 2006 and a historical reflection on it and a brief analysis of its manifestation in few forest dweller communities in few villages of bilaspur district, chhattisgarh state. Ministry of tribal affairs 20, status report on implementation of the scheduled tribes and other traditional forest dwellers recognition of forest rights act, 2006 12. But the congress, at least in himachal, has failed to make use of this legislation to provide relief to tribal population. This document is put online by the international environmental law research centre ielrc for information purposes. India code link to scheduled tribes and other traditional forest dwellers recognition of forest rights act, 2006. An act to recognise and vest the forest rights and occupation in forest land in forestdwing scheduled tribes and other traditional forest dwellers who. In this act, unless the context otherwise requires, a o other traditional forest dweller means any member or community who hasfor at least three generations prior to the th day of december. Other traditional forest dwellers recognition of forest rights act, 2006.
Org the scheduled tribes and other traditional forest. Forest dwellers recognition of forest rights rules, 2007. Basic features of scheduled tribes and other traditional. Wikiproject india protected areas rated startclass, lowimportance. Forest rights of forest dwelling scheduled tribes and other tradional forest dwellers. The scheduled tribes and other traditional forest dwellers recognition of forest rights act, 2006, commonly referred to as the forest right act fra, is considered a pathbreaking legislation that acknowledges the historical injustice meted out to indias forest dwellers, particularly tribals. The recognition and vesting of forest rights under this act to the forest dwelling scheduled tribes and to other traditional forest dwellers in relation to any state or union territory in respect of forest land and their habitat shall be subject to the condition that such scheduled tribes or tribal communities or other traditional forest dwellers had occupied forest land before the th day of. Dwellers recognition of forest rights act, 2006 2 of. The act introduced on th december 2005, took two years in the process and notified only on 1 st. Status report on the implementation of the scheduled tribes and other traditional forest dwellers recognition of forest rights act,2006 for. Act which was passed by the parliament of india in 2006, came into force on january 1, 2008.
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