About 20 crore people depend on forest areas for their primary livelihood, Mr. Soren written in a latter to the Prime Minister Narendra Modi
New Delhi: Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren fears that tribals will lose their rights of forest if the Centre's new forest conservation rules come into effect. He wrote a letter to the Prime Minister Nrendra Modi and requested to reconsider the decision in this regard.
According to news agency, the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) supremo wrote in the letter, “The Forest Conservation Rules 2022 notification is against the Tribal Forest Rights Act, 2006. As the chief minister of tribal states, I feel it is my duty to convey this to you.” He further said, "10 crore citizens of the country live in forest land. About 20 crore people depend on forest areas for their primary livelihood. If the new rules come into effect, those people who identify themselves as children of the forest will lose their rights."
The Forest Rights Act, enacted in 2006 under the then UPA government at the Centre, vests forest land and lawfully harvested forest resources in the hands of individuals and groups who are forest dwellers and forest-dependent for livelihood. In order to make this law more effective, a notification issued in 2009 during the tenure of Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh stated that, unless the rights of forest dwellers are ensured, no authority can grant permission to use forest land for any other purpose without the permission of the local gram sabha.
However, as a result of the new notification of the Modi government, the precondition of taking the opinion of the forest people has been lifted. Industrial companies can cut forest only after obtaining permission from the center. Soren has written a letter to the Prime Minister requesting the Union Ministry of Forests and Environment to withdraw this decision.
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