Draft - Scheduled tribes and other traditional forest dwellers (recognition of forest rights) amendments rules 2012- Document by Ministry of Tribal Affairs

This document by Ministry of Tribal Affairs sheds light on the rules related to the rights of the Scheduled tribes and other traditional forest dwellers. It spells out the details of the each clause that shall be substituted in the existing rules as well as the new rules that will be inserted in the new one.

The draft focuses specifically focuses on two important issues: the identification of hamlets or settlements and the process of their consolidation and process of recognition of community rights.

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