The Residents of Bidapaju Village were unaware of the laws protecting them until volunteers from Nirman NGO visited them and encouraged them to ascertain their forest rights.
Bidapaju Village: Community Ownership of Forest Rights After 15 Years Read More »
The Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006 is the result of a relentless struggle for ownership by tribal people and forest dwellers, over their traditional habitat, the forests.
Forest Rights Act – Returning Ownership to Native Forest Dwellers Read More »
Irregular implementation of the Forest Rights Act due to lethargy and ambiguity has rendered some tribal communities in Maharashtra strangers in their own homes. They are often harassed by Forest Officials and restricted access to the resources of the forest they help nurture all in the name of a law enacted in 1980. Frustrated by
Tribal areas fight against the irregular implementation of Forest Right Act Read More »
