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 traditional
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