FOREST RIGHT ACT

SUBMITED BY : W . SUBADANI DEVI

MSc . 3rd Sem roll - 33DPT. Of life science & Bioinformatics

CONTENTS

1) Introduction .2) Right of act .3) Recognition and restoration and vesting

of forest right and related matters . 4) Authorities and procedure for vesting of

forest right .5) Offence and penalties .6) Problems of the act face .7) Conclusion 8) Reference

INTRODUCTION

Recognition of forest right act 2oo6 schedule

and other traditional forest dewellers that the

forest legislation passed in India at December

18 , 2oo6 this is call the forest right act .

PURPOSE

Purpose of this acts is that secure individual

or community tenure or both shall be the right

of forest dwelling schedule tribe and other traditional forest dwellers on the forest land .

THIS RIGHT ARE INCLUDDED IN SECTION 3{1} OF ACT AND THERE ARE 13 RIGHT IN THIS ACT ARE :

Right to hold and live in the forest land under the individual or common occupation for habitation or self- cultivation for livelihood by a number of a forest dwelling schedule tribes or other traditional forest dwellers .

Community rights such as nistar by what even name called including those use in erstwhile princely state , Zamindari or such as intermediary region .

Right of ownership access to collect use and dispose of minor forest produce has been traditionally collected within or outside village boundaries .

Other community right of use or entitlement such as fish and other produce of bodies gazing [ both settled or transhunant] and traditional seasonal resource access of nomadic or pastordist communities

Right is over disputed lands under any nomenclature in any state when claims and disputed .

Right for conversation of Patta or lease or gram issue by any local authority or any state Govt . on forest lands to titles .

Right of settlement and conversion of all forest -village old habitation unsurvey village and other village in forest .whether recorded notified or into revenue village .

Right to product regenerate or conserve or manage any community forest resource which conserving for sustainable use .

Right which are recognized under any state law or laws of any autonomous district council or autonomous rigional council or which are occupied as right of tribal under any traditional or customary law of concerned tribe of any tribes of any state .

Right of aces to biodiversity and community rights to

intellectual property and traditional knowledge related to biodiversity and cultural diversity .

Any other traditional right customarily enjoyed by the forest dwelling schedule tribes or other traditional forest dwellers as the case may be which are not mention in clause -1-11 but excluding the traditional right of hunting or trapping extracting apart of the body of any species of wild animal .

Right to in-situ rehabilitation including alternation land case where the scheduled tribe and other traditional displaced from forest land of any description without receiving their legal entitlement to rehabitation .

RECOGNITION , RESTORATION AND VESTING OF FOREST RIGHT AND RELATED MATTERS

Central government here by recognised and vests forest right in –

a) The forest dwelling schedule tribes or areas in state where they are declared as schedule in respect of all forest right mention in section 3 .

b) The other traditional forest dweller in respect of all forest right mention in section 3 .

AUTHORITIES AND PROCEDURE FOR VESTING OF FORET RIGHTS

The gram sabha shall be the authority to initiate the process for determining the nature and existent of individual or community forest right or both may be given to the forest dwelling schedule tribes and other traditional forest dwellers within the local limit of it juridiction under this act by receving claim consolidation and veryfying them and preparing a map deletenating the area of each recommended claim in such manner may be pescribe for exercise of such right and gram sabha shall then pass a resolution to that effect and thereafter forward a copy of the same to the sub-divisional level commitee.

OFFENCE AND PENALTIESa) Any authority or commitee officers and member of such

authority or committee contravenes any provision of this act or any rule made thereunder concerning recognition of forest right it or they shall be cleaned to be guilty of an offence under this act and shall be liable to be proceed against and punished with fine which may extend to one thousand rupees or simple imprisonment for a period which may extend to fiften days .

b) No count shall take cognizance of any offence under section 9 unless any forest dwelling schedule tribe in case of dispute relating to a resolution of a gram sabha through a resolution against any higher authority gives a notice of not less than sixty days to the state level committee has not proceeded against such authority .

PROBLEMS OF THIS ACT : This act has been met certain problems from the

environmentalist and wildlife conservationist that the law and distribution scheme that will lead to the handling over of forest to tribal and forest deweller . But the most important problem is that law will impossible space or areas free of human presence for the purpose of wild life conservation . The tiger conservation has been mention .

The great misunderstanding of the purpose of this act was that the law is distribute forest land and forest dweller or tribal often claimed introduce to be at the rate of 4 hectar per family . The act is introduce to recognized land that are all ready under cultivation on December 13-2oo5 no to grant little to any new land .

CONCLUSION

The forest right act is given to all the people live

in the forest area that former they have not

given this right the government official have

power over forest and forest dweller . Now they

have a right to hole and live in forest land under

the individual or common occupation or

habitation or self cultivation for livelihood . This

is very useful to the forest dweller .

REFERENCE

1. Handbook of Forest Act , 198o , Govt .of India Ministry of environment & Forest , New Delhi .

2. www.forestright.nic.in3. forestrightact.com/what-is-this-act.4. https.//forestright.com/forest-

conservation5. www.forest.in,nic.in/forest-conservat

ion.

6. www.tribal.nic.in./write ReadData/CMS.

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