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The paper tries to focus on the implementation status of the Forest Rights Act, 2006 (FRA)in India, and implications on the forest-dwelling communities in India. The work elaborates on various forest dwellers, their legal statuses, and their progress in claiming the rights including community forest rights under section 3(1)(i) of Forest Rights Act, 2006 of India. The study focuses on the Juang community of Keonjhar, Odisha who are classified as particularly vulnerable tribes under the Dhebar Commission. The main focus of the study was to measure the implementation status of FRA in the Odisha state of India and to study the influencing factors which every community used to implement the act in their region. The article documents the claim procedure and their current status in various regions and also looks into forest dependency on food among these tribes. The documentation also helps to understand the intricacies of FRA and the roadblocks ineffective implementation of the right at a larger scale. The work also looks into the livelihood options of forest-dwelling communities after FRA and the resource management techniques of forest depended on communities bestowed by the rights. The study also tries to document forest food dependency of communities and the significance of conservation of traditional knowledge. One-liner: The paper tries to analyze the status of forest rights in particularly vulnerable communities of India and try to find the best practices for sustainable forestry and to fast track the claims under FRA.
Forest Right Legislation in India: Evolution and implications
It argues that the forest right legislation needs to be extended to assist in tribal development. The various initiatives taken by civil society, NGOs and government have led to greater access and control of forest resources by local people. As a result, there has been some improvement in forest protection and management and reduction of pressure on natural resources. Substantial swathes of degraded forests have been rehabilitated and new forests have been planted. Local people have started supporting forest conservation where they have been able to reap financial returns from benefit-sharing schemes.
Forest Rights in Baiga Chak, Madhya Pradesh
Economic and Political Weekly, 2017
Translating the potential of the Forest Rights Act into reality is a challenge even in regions “meant for” Adivasis, such as the Baiga Chak in eastern Madhya Pradesh, given the weak capacity for collective action, tangled relationship with the forest department, changing youth aspirations, and people’s conception of the environment at variance with some provisions of the act.
The Forest Rights Act and the Resource Struggle in India's Forests
Quietly and with little attention from the mainstream media, a growing battle is developing over the way India's resources are controlled and governed. Twenty three percent of India's land area is recorded as “forest”, mostly under government control. This huge area includes much of the country's minerals, water bodies, biodiversity, wildlife – and our most marginalised communities. Today, the struggle over these areas is undergoing a slow but significant shift, with the passage of the Forest Rights Act of 2006, and the growing intensity of the fight over what this law will mean.
Conflicting perspectives of forest management in Bastar, Central India
Natural Resources Forum, 2001
This article enters the debate on shifting cultivation and tropical forests, and the role of the State forest departments in managing these regions. The article focuses on the adivasi (indigenous) people and their use offorests in the Bastar region of Madhya Pradesh in Central India. It examines the different landscapes, resulting from human interaction, in order to observe the vegetative changes and progressions in their characteristics; in particular, the author challenges the view that adivasi forest use has been detrimental to the ecology of the forest. A botanical comparison is made between three sites that allow us to note spec$c characteristics of a fallow, a secondary forest and a primary sal (Shorea robusta) forest. The wider aspects of the adivasi manner of forest use are also discussed. A major portion of the Bastar region is legally under the authority of the Madhya Pradesh State Forest Department. However, the oficial policies and laws, pertaining to the conservation of forests and the generation of revenue, are often insensitive to the udivasi perceptions and use of the various vegetative zones within the forest. The effect of a standardised form of demarcation, coupled with the State legislation, has overlooked the adivasi people's needs and their ecologically sound way of relating to the forest. The paper concludes with a few recommendations.
Tribes and Forest: A critical appraisal of the tribal forest right in India
TIJ's Research Journal of Social Science & Management - RJSSM, 2016
India is land of nearly 10.4 million tribes which constitutes 8.6% of its total population and spread over 15% of its geographical area. Tribe has very close relation with the forest and their life and sustenance is harmonized with available forest resources. The ongoing pursuit for economic development and market pressure on government have forced policy-makers to convert forest land into large corporations which again push away the indigenous people from their soils. Since the colonial period the forest policies jeopardized the tribal’s rights over the forest and ignored their voices during framing the laws. In the colonial period the legal and policy instruments transferred the right over forests from communities’ hand to government’s hand. The post colonial law has provided a dignified status to tribals but it will not be able to resolve tribal people’s human rights and livelihood issues without similar or greater advancement in law and administration in other areas such as land...