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Type:
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Working Paper |
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Author:
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Vyas, Vivek; Bhise, S. N. |
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Date:
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2006 |
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https://hdl.handle.net/10535/4531
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Forestry |
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Subject(s):
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forests
land tenure and use
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Abstract:
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"State Forest Departments have taken steps in the past to overcome the issue of encroachment on forests. During the past they had sought to legalize encroachments prior to 1980. Comprehensive surveys have been conducted to map pre and post 1980 encroachments by the forest department as well as by civil society agencies like Jangal Jameen Andolan. These surveys report the extent of encroachments to the policy makers. However, discrepancies exist between the government and NGO figures. The various attempts to mark pre-1980 encroachments and regularize them have failed miserably. The government has proposed a Forest (Tribal) Rights Bill 2005, which has laid down a framework to deal with this issue. It has provisions to empower the Gram Sabhas to determine the encroachments eligible for regularization and forward such cases for approval. Whether the village level committee can take up this responsibility has not been tested as yet.
"This study attempts to do a pilot test of the bill in a micro village context. Most importantly this study is a means to gauge the ground realities associated with this issue and to highlight the complexities that can surface during implementation."
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