%0 Journal Article
%T IMPACT OF THE FOREST RIGHT ACT 2006 ON FOREST AND FOREST DWELLERS
%A S.P.CHAVAN
%J Indian Streams Research Journal
%D 2012
%I Laxmi Book Publication
%X India is one of the very few countries of the world, which enshrined in its constitution development of tribal, forest and environment. Article 46 enjoin on the state to promote with special care the education and economic interest of the scheduled tribes and protecting them from social injustice and all forms of exploitation. As per article 48-A the state should endeavor to protect and improve the environment and safeguard the forest and wild life. Indian federal government has enacted the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act 2006 to recognize and vest rights of forest communities. The life of forest dwellers is so much linked and intertwined with forest. The forests are the life streams of forest dwellers. The Forest Rights Act secures individual and common tenure over forestlands and forests. The Act recognizes territorial rights, rights of pre-agricultural communities, and rights over community conservation initiatives. The Forest Rights Act vests authority in the Gram Sabha (village assembly) to initiate the process of determination of rights, which includes receiving, consolidating, and verifying the claims. Thus, F.R.A. should be seen in a proper perspective it would be a move to step forward towards attaining Justice for Livelihood and Environment.
%K Forest
%K Dwellers
%K Constitution
%K Traditional.
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