Forest Rights in the North East: Inching towards Exclusion

Most of the North East enjoys unbridled authority over forests unlike the rest of the country, free from state control under the debilitating impact of the colonial-era Indian Forest Act, 1927. [...]the Forest Rights Act, 2006 is perceived as irrelevant. [...]these forests were not administered by t...

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Published in:Economic and political weekly 2019-11
Main Author: Bijoy, C R
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Climate change
Forests
Law
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Summary:Most of the North East enjoys unbridled authority over forests unlike the rest of the country, free from state control under the debilitating impact of the colonial-era Indian Forest Act, 1927. [...]the Forest Rights Act, 2006 is perceived as irrelevant. [...]these forests were not administered by the forest bureaucracy under the forest laws. Territorial boundaries of land and forests belonging to different communities or tribes are also identified in the same line leaving no scope for any dispute over the possession of land, forest and water bodies among the tribes. [...]Forest Rights Act does not have much relevance in Arunachal Pradesh. [...]the Bharatiya Janata Party government at the centre, through its Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, sent a proposal for a sweeping set of amendments to the Indian Forest Act, 19275 to all states for comments by 7 June 2019, after holding state-level consultations with stakeholders.
ISSN:0012-9976