Q.4. Elucidate on the legal rights of tribal population.
Ans. Introduction: The Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006, is a forest legislation passed in India on 18 December 2006. It has also been called the Forest Rights Act, the Tribal Rights Act, the Tribal Bill, and the Tribal Land Act. The law concerns the rights of forest-dwelling communities to land and other resources, which was earlier denied to them over decades as a result of the continuance of colonial forest laws in India.
Legal Rights:
(i) Right to hold and live in the forest land for habitation or for self-cultivation or for livelihood by traditional forest dwellers.
(ii) Community rights such as nistar, including those used in erstwhile Princely states, Zamindari or such intermediary regimes
(iii) Right of ownership, access to collect, use, and dispose of minor forest produce tincludes all non-timber forest produce of plant origin which has been traditionally collected within or outside village boundaries.
(iv) Other community rights of uses of entitlements such as fish and other products of water bodies, grazing and traditional seasonal resource access of nomadic or pastoralist communities.
(v) Rights including community tenures of habitat and habitation for primitive tribal groups and pre-agriculture communities.
Conservation of Environment:
Tribal people have knowledge about the forests and wildlife and can help preserve flora and fauna. The ethnic people of India have played a vital role in preserving biodiversity of several virgin forests and have conserved several flora and fauna in sacred groves of tribals, otherwise these flora and fauna might have been disappeared from natural ecosystem. The sacred groves are the natural forests. which are located in North-East, Central and Peninsular India faced interference of all kind of human activities. Due to the religious beliefs the tribals, mango trees have been conserved in natural ecosystem.
Case Study: Bishnoi Community of Rajasthan
Bishnoi community is a Hindu religious sect, known for its love for nature and animals. They belong to western Rajasthan and are also found in many parts of Haryana. Reports show that in 2016, over 1,700 people who were involved in wildlife crimes in Rajasthan were arrested due to the efforts of this community. Though Bishnois believe in protecting all animals against poaching, but Blackbuck has a special place in their customs as Bishnois of Jodhpur believe that Blackbuck is the reincarnation of Guru Bhagwan Jambeshwar.
Comments
Post a Comment