India: MOEF-MOTA Joint Committee On Forest Rights Act Implementation And Future Forest Policy

India: MOEF-MOTA Joint Committee On Forest Rights Act Implementation And Future Forest Policy   The Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006, popularly known as the Forests Rights Act (FRA), was enacted in 2007 through the Ministry of Tribal Affairs to correct the ‘historic injustice done to forest-dwelling communities’. These communities were cultivating /occupying forest land and using forest produce since ages but had no tenurial...

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