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How does the new Forest Act affect tribals?

  • UPSC 2013
  • Tribal Communities in India

The "new Forest Act" is the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006, in force from 31 December 2007. It reverses the colonial forest regime — the Indian Forest Acts of 1865, 1878 and 1927, which reclassified customary use as a privilege granted by the state and made shifting…

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