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Rise in atrocities against forest-dwellers during COVID-19 crisis, flags report -Ishan Kukreti

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Union Ministry of Tribal Affairs should create a COVID-19 response cell to monitor issues and provide support, it said

The novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) crisis has hit the forest dwellers in India hard: The pandemic has led to a loss of livelihood and employment, caused food insecurity and socio-economic distress for the marginalised forest-dwelling communities, according to a new report.

Atrocities and injustices faced by these communities due to forest, conservation and economic policies, too, increased manifold during the pandemic, the report stated.

Community Forest Rights-Learning and Advocacy (CFR-LA), a national platform of activists and experts working with forest-dwelling communities, prepared and released the report. It did so in collaboration with Vikalp Sangam, a group of organisations working on providing alternatives for social problems.

The report suggested that the Union Ministry of Tribal Affairs (MoTA) should create a COVID-19 response cell — with a team of designated nodal officers — to coordinate with state governments / tribal departments and civil society organisations, monitor issues and provide necessary support to tribal people and forest dwellers.

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