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Forest Rights Act – Returning Ownership to Native Forest Dwellers

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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.

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Tribal areas fight against the irregular implementation of Forest Right Act

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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

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