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Highlights • The problem and intense resource conflicts afflicting the uncultivated half of India • Acquisition of the forest and other common lands for various purposes • Overlapping mandates of the FRA and PESA Page 2
Conference on Forests and Common Lands: Rights, Conflicts, FRA, and PESA 18 th December 2012 This conference on “Forests and Common Lands: Rights, Conflicts, FRA, and PESA” aims to focus attention on how the tribal and rural communities, with tenuous rights on forests and other common lands, face increasing deprivation of their livelihood resources despite the inherent constitutional and legal guarantees under the Forest Rights Act and PESA. The conference presentations from the tribal states and an overarching study highlight the dimensions of the problem and intense resource conflicts afflicting the uncultivated half of India. Acquisition of the forest and other common lands for various purposes has not yet received the attention of the policy makers despite the raging debate on Land Acquisition Bill. A set of forward looking policy options and changes in the implementation structures will be presented that could help in transforming the livelihoods of the poor, securing investments on fairer terms, and resolution of conflicts. This conference will convene government leaders, tribal and community representatives, civil society, and the scholars who have been analyzing these issues for a long time. Participants will identify the options for reform that help in ushering in a fairer and inclusive path of development in some of the poorest areas of the country. Background Widespread protests against large scale land acquisition for development projects have become a major political issue in the country and new Land Acquisition, Resettlement & Rehabilitation Bill is under consideration of the Parliament. It is meant to replace the 1894 Land Acquisition Act. Simultaneously, efforts appear under way to revitalize implementation of the Forest Rights Act and to finally ensure implementation of the progressive Panchayats (Extension to Scheduled Areas) Act, (PESA) 1996 providing for self governance and management of community resources by village assemblies in tribal areas. The government is also in the process of radically revising the Mining and Mineral Development and Regulation Act which for the first time would treat local people to be displaced as major stakeholders entitled to a share of benefits from the mining operations. All these developments present an opportunity where tenuous gains made in recognition of tribal and One Villager affected land on roadside other forest dwellers land and forest rights could be consolidated and tribal and other communities get the chance to determine the nature of development in their areas. The Ministry of Tribal Affairs and the Ministry of Panchayati Raj are responsible for the overlapping mandates of the FRA and PESA and under the current leadership have indicated Page 3
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