Forest Rights Act: A New Dawn

The apocalypse of forest loss and fragmentation' by Praveen Bhargav, published in The New Indian Express on February 16, weaves an imaginary catastrophe gripping India's forests.

- C R BIJOY

The marauder, the article points out, is the Scheduled Tribes and other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006 (FRA).

However, the FRA, hailed as a historic flagship law incorporating inputs from across the country — from the forest-dwellers to the ecologists, and legal experts to seasoned administrators — was unanimously enacted.