Adivaasi  Vanadhikar Patra in Madhya Pradesh

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Why in News?

In MP 2.70 Lakh personal  Vanadhikar patra  & 36.996 thousand  community Vanadhikar  patra are distributed in MP till Sep 2020 .

Under which act such rights are given ?

The Forest act-2006 recognize and vest the forest rights and occupation in Forest land in forest Dwelling Scheduled Tribes (FDST) and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (OTFD)who have been residing in such forests for generations.

The current title deeds to Adivassis  in MP are given under the above act.

What is Forest Act-2006?

The Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006, is a key piece of forest legislation passed in India on 18 December 2006.

 It has also been called the Forest Rights Act, the Tribal Rights Act,  and the Tribal Land Act.

The law concerns the rights of forest-dwelling communities to land and other resources, denied to them over decades as a result of the continuance of colonial forest laws in India.

The Act was notified into force on 31 December 2007 .

On 1 January 2008, this was followed by the notification of the Rules framed by the Ministry of Tribal Affairs to supplement the procedural aspects of the Act .

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