sameeksha Current Issue : VOL 43 No. 33 August 16 - August 22, 2008    See Full Contents>>
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    Surviving the Forest Rights Act: Between Scylla and Charybdi...   (1st March 2008)
     Madhu Ramnath
          This article presents the many arguments in favour of and against the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006, and the obstacles in implementation. Some of the various problems that arise due to the peculiar circumstances pertaining to tribal India, and the administrative machinery in place to guide the special policies concerning forest conservation and tribal people are also elaborated upon. The article brings out a number of field-level issues that deal with traditional conservation in tribal India as well as the limitations and pitfalls in entrusting the execution of the act to the gram sabha.


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