Header menu link for other important links
X
Contested spaces, democratic rights people and forests today
Published in Economic and Political Weekly
2016
Volume: 51
   
Issue: 16
Pages: 12 - 15
Abstract
The Maharashtra government's village forest rules seek to overturn the rights regime established in the letter of the law by the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act and the Panchayats (Extension to the Scheduled Areas) Act 1996 in terms of both community rights, as well as the rights over minor forest produce. Moreover, the rules write away the future rights of the community over forests and their management and control over minor forest produce in perpetuity. These are also ultra vires of the rules regime agreed and enacted by an act of Parliament.
About the journal
Published in Economic and Political Weekly
Open Access
no
Impact factor
N/A