Forest Rights Act recognizes the rights of forest dwellers over forestland and forest resources such...........

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Forest Rights Act recognizes the rights of forest dwellers over forestland and forest resources such as minor forest produce they have traditionally been extracting and using. Which of the following statements is/are correct with regard to this Act.

1. As per this act, Gram Sabha plays pivotal role in ensuring the rights of the forest dwellers, decision making, planning and management for Joint Forest Management.

2. A committee set up by Gram Sabha issues transit passes for transporting minor forest produce.

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1 only

2 only

Both 1 and 2

Neither 1 nor 2

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Explanation:

Both the statements are correct.
Forest Rights Act 2006
In 1990, a Joint Forest Management Circular was released by the Government of India, which recommended the involvement of village communities, voluntary agencies in the regeneration of the degraded forest lands. However this circular had no force of law behind it.
However, the Forest Act 2006 marked a real water shade in the history of the forest communities in India. For the first time, the Government of India via the Scheduled Tribes and the Other Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act 2006, admitted that ‘forest rights on the ancestral lands and their habitat were not adequately recognized in the consolidation of state forests during the colonial periods as well as in Independent India resulting in Historical injustice with the scheduled tribes and other traditional forest dwellers, who are integral to the very survival of the forest ecosystem”.

This Forest Rights Act 2006 provides the following:
• Tenurial Security and access rights to forest dwellers
• Right to hold and live in forest land under individual or common occupation for habitation or for the self-cultivation for livelihood.
• Right of ownership access to collect, use and dispose of minor forest produce that has been traditional collected within or outside the village boundaries.
• Other community rights such as on fish and water bodies.
• Rights of settlement and conversion of forest villages into revenue villages.

As per this act, Gram Sabha plays pivotal role in ensuring the rights of the forest dwellers, decision making, planning and management for Joint Forest Management.