Particular Vulnerable Tribal Groups (PVTGs) in India face extreme socio-economic vulnerability and maintain distinct cultural practices. The Forest Rights Act (FRA) of 2006 seeks to correct historical injustices by granting forest land and resource rights to forest-dwelling communities. However, PVTGs face specific challenges under FRA that impede the effective implementation of these rights.
The livelihood of perhaps 100 million poorest of the poor stands to improve if implementation can succeed.
Particular Vulnerable Tribal Groups (PVTGs) in India face extreme socio-economic vulnerability and maintain distinct cultural practices. The Forest Rights Act (FRA) of 2006 seeks to correct historical injustices by granting forest land and resource rights to forest-dwelling communities. However, PVTGs face specific challenges under FRA that impede the effective implementation of these rights.
The livelihood of perhaps 100 million poorest of the poor stands to improve if implementation can succeed.
The Forest Rights Act (FRA) 2006 is a milestone in the legislative history of independent India. The Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006 is a result of the protracted struggle by the marginal and tribal communities of our country to assert their rights over the forestland over which they were traditionally dependent. This Act is crucial to the rights of millions of tribals and other forest dwellers in different parts of our country as it provides for the restitution of deprived forest rights across India, including both individual rights to cultivated land in forestland and community rights over common property resources.
This is due to its mandate to ‘undo the historical injustice’ done to millions of forest-dwelling tribal and other communities whose pre-existing rights were not recognized during the consolidation of state forests.
Community forest rights recognized under the Forest Rights Act are important for securing livelihoods of the forest communities and for strengthening local self governance of forests and natural resources. The CFR link is a part of a collective initiative for collection and sharing of information on CFR from different states. The collection and sharing of information is coordinated by Vasundhara and Kalpavriksh with support from Oxfam.
Know The ActsCommunity forest rights recognized under the Forest Rights Act are important for securing livelihoods of the forest communities and for strengthening local self governance of forests and natural resources. The CFR link is a part of a collective initiative for collection and sharing of information on CFR from different states. The collection and sharing of information is coordinated by Vasundhara and Kalpavriksh with support from Oxfam.
