2 Constitution & Welfare of Weaker Sections · 2.2 Tribes of India and AP

2.2.4 Forest Rights Act 2006: individual and community rights and the role of the Gram Sabha

The Forest Rights Act, 2006 recognises the land and resource rights of forest-dwelling communities that forest laws had ignored, and makes the Gram Sabha the authority to start the process of recognition.

  • APPSC Paper I
  • Standard level
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  • Full course

Key terms

  • Forest Rights Act
  • FRA 2006
  • historical injustice
  • forest dwelling Scheduled Tribes
  • other traditional forest dwellers
  • 13 December 2005
  • three generations
  • 75 years
  • four hectares
  • community forest resource
  • minor forest produce
  • Gram Sabha
  • SDLC
  • DLC
  • critical wildlife habitat
  • Niyamgiri
  • Ministry of Tribal Affairs

What this note covers

  1. Core factsFoundation
  2. ExplainedStandard
  3. DeeperAdvanced
  4. AP angleStandard
  5. Mains writingMains writing
  6. Common trapsFoundation
  7. Quick revisionFoundation

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