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Himachal villages claim community forest rights for the first time -Anupam Chakravartty

-Down to Earth

Threatened by an eviction notice from Shimla High Court over encroachment into forestland, villages come forward to claim their community rights

More than 100 villages in Himachal Pradesh have filed their community forest rights claims for the first time since Forest Rights Act (FRA) of 2006 came into being. This happened after the Himachal Pradesh High Court passed an order, in April 2015, asking the government to remove any kind of encroachment in the forests of the state. Himachal Pradesh is one of the few states where the act has not yet been implemented completely.

According to Guman Singh, convenor of Him Niti Abhiyan, a coalition of various non-profits working in the state, they have taken this step to bring to government’s notice the fact that the state government is still in the process of settling the claims under FRA and can therefore not evict people who depend on the forests for their livelihood.

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Down to Earth, 9 June, 2015