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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Madhya Pradesh forest department violates FRA, seizes tendu leaves from tribals -Ishan Kukreti

Madhya Pradesh forest department violates FRA, seizes tendu leaves from tribals -Ishan Kukreti

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published Published on Jun 6, 2017   modified Modified on Jun 6, 2017
-Down to Earth

The leaves were reportedly confiscated as the women were selling them to buyers other than the forest department

Without any legal rationale, the officials of Madhya Pradesh Forest Department seized tendu leaves collected by 24 tribal women in Barwaha village near Mungaoli town.

The incident happened on May 31 when the women were returning after collecting the leaves. The leaves, used in rolling beedis, are a part of the Minor Forest Produce (MFP), as described in the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act (FRA), 2006.

“The leaves were seized near Mungaoli,” Barwaha Range Officer (RO) Monica Thakur, who caught the women, told Down to Earth.

But when asked about the Act under which she had confiscated the leaves, her response was evasive.

“They were carrying it illegally,” she said before disconnecting the call. When contacted again, she gave the phone to a forest guard. “Two to three thousand bundles of tendu leaves were confiscated under the Madhya Pradesh Tendu Patta (Vyapar Viniyaman) Adhiniyam 1964,” the forest guard said.

According to local reports, the leaves were confiscated as the women were selling them to buyers other than the forest department. The forest guard, too, maintained that the leaves were confiscated because they were being ‘illegally’ collected and sold.

What does the Forest Rights Act say?

However, under the FRA, the tribals have the right to dispose of the MFP as they deem fit.

According to the FRA’s section 3(i)(c), the tribals have the “right of ownership, access to collect, and dispose of minor forest produce which has been traditionally collected within or outside village boundaries”.

The act also clearly defines that the MFP includes “all non-timber forest produce of plant origin, including bamboo, brush wood, cane, tussar, cocoons, honey, wax, lac, tendu or kendu leaves, medicinal plants and herbs, roots, tubers and the like”.

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Down to Earth, 2 June, 2017, http://www.downtoearth.org.in/news/madhya-pradesh-forest-department-violates-fra-seizes-tendu-leaves-from-tribals-58017


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