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Forest Rights Act Cells
June 18 , 2025
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- The Union government has started funding structural mechanisms to “facilitate” the implementation of the law meant to give forest rights to ST and forest-dwelling communities.
- The Forest Rights Act (FRA) came into being in 2006.
- Implementation of the FRA, for the last 19 years, has been the domain of State and union territory governments.
- Under the Dharti Aba Janjatiya Gram Utkarsh Abhiyaan (DAJGUA), the Union Ministry of Tribal Affairs has so far sanctioned the setting up of 324 district-level FRA cells across 18 States and union territories implementing the forest rights law.
- In addition, State-level FRA cells have been sanctioned for 17 of these States and union territories.
- The highest number of district FRA cells sanctioned so far has been in Madhya Pradesh, where 55 have been approved.
- This is followed by 30 in Chhattisgarh, 29 in Telangana, 26 in Maharashtra, 25 in Assam, and 24 in Jharkhand.
- This is the first time such FRA cells are being proposed by the Union government to speed up FRA implementation.
- The Odisha state government has been using a similar mechanism for the couple of years.
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