Question

Gram Sabha rejected the permission for the mining in Orissa, Chattisgarh.
Consider the following statements about the Forest Rights Act 2006:

Which of the above statement(s) is/are NOT correct?

• A. Only 1
• B. Only 2 & 3
• C. Only 1 & 3
• D. None of the above

Answer 1

The correct option is A Only 1

Gram Sabha rejecting the permission for the mining in Orissa, Chattisgarh ( Dongri Kondh adivasis in Niyamgiri hills)
The act provides for the recognition of the rights of communities to govern, use, and conserve forests. It means that any activity in a community governed forest should be subject to the consent by the community.
The principle of free and prior informed consent is reiterated in the recent declaration on the rights of the Indigenous people. It needs to be incorporated as a central tenet in India’s welfare planning.
Tribal self rule in central India, communities action law in Nagaland, people’s planning in Kerala are few initiatives that are in line with democracy.
The Forest Policy 1988 deviated from the economic importance for the first time and treated them as ecological necessity as source of goods for local populations. These goods were called Non Timber Forest Produce (NTFP). This policy also set the target of increasing India’s forest cover to 33%.The 1988 Forest policy paved the way for implementation of the Joint Forest Management (JFM) which included the involvement of local village communities and voluntary agencies in the regeneration of the degraded forests. This was for the first time in centuries that the rights of the local communities over the forest lands were specified. But the Wildlife Protection Act of 1972 had already criminalized the forest people and taken away their traditional NTFP and fishing rights, while poaching could never be effectively stopped.
Forest Rights Act 2006 provides the following:

• Tenural Security and access rights to forest dwellers
• Right to hold and live in forest land under individual or common occupation for habitation or for the self-cultivation for livelihood.
• Right of ownership access to collect, use and dispose of minor forest produce that has been traditionally collected within or outside the village boundaries.
• Other community rights such as on fish and water bodies.

Rights of settlement and conversion of forest villages into revenue villages.