Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006
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Summary
Recognised the rights of forest-dwelling tribal communities and other traditional forest dwellers to forest resources on which they have been dependent for centuries. Addresses historical injustice in forest governance.