About Forest Right act
The Forest Rights Act (FRA) 2006 is a milestone in the legislative history of independent India. The Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006 is a result of the protracted struggle by the marginal and tribal communities of our country to assert their rights over the forestland over which they were traditionally dependent. This Act is crucial to the rights of millions of tribals and other forest dwellers in different parts of our country as it provides for the restitution of deprived forest rights across India, including both individual rights to cultivated land in forestland and community rights over common property resources.
This is due to its mandate to ‘undo the historical injustice’ done to millions of forest-dwelling tribal and other communities whose pre-existing rights were not recognized during the consolidation of state forests.