Draft Indian Forest Act 2019: Dehumanising Forests

Santhosh Kumar 24/04/2019

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The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF&CC) has released the draft of the comprehensive amendments to the Indian Forest Act, 1927 (IFA). However, the amendments have been criticized as an attempt by the central government to grab natural resources owned by tribals for generations.

About Indian Forest Act, 1927

Britishers imposed the Indian Forest Act, 1927 to take over Indian forests, use them to produce timber, while curtailing and extinguishing rights of millions.
The Act empowered the Government and the Forest Department to create Reserved Forests, and the right to use Reserved Forests for Government use alone.
It defines what a forest offence is, w

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