Consider the following statements: 1. As per recent amendment to the Indian Forest Act, 1927, forest dwellers have the right to fell the bamboos grown on forest areas. 2. As per the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Fo

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Q: 35 (IAS/2019)
Consider the following statements:
1. As per recent amendment to the Indian Forest Act, 1927, forest dwellers have the right to fell the bamboos grown on forest areas.
2. As per the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006, bamboo is a minor forest produce.
3. The Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006 allows ownership of minor forest produce to forest dwellers.
Which of the statements given above is / are correct?

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Geography

question_exam: 

IAS

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{'indian forest act': [0, 0, 0, 2], 'forest rights': [0, 0, 1, 0], 'minor forest produce': [0, 0, 0, 3], 'forest dwellers': [0, 0, 1, 1], 'bamboos': [0, 0, 1, 1], 'forest areas': [0, 1, 0, 0], 'bamboo': [1, 0, 0, 0], 'other traditional forest dwellers': [0, 0, 0, 4], 'tribes': [1, 1, 2, 1], 'recent amendment': [0, 0, 0, 1], 'act': [7, 1, 13, 45], 'ownership': [0, 0, 2, 1]}

The correct answer is (b) 2 and 3 only.

Explanation:

Statement 1 is incorrect. As per the amendment to the Indian Forest Act, 1927 in 2017, bamboo has been excluded from the definition of trees. This means that the felling and transit of bamboo does not require permission under the Act. However, this does not automatically confer ownership rights over bamboo to forest dwellers.

Statement 2 is correct. The Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006 includes bamboo as a minor forest produce.

Statement 3 is correct. The Act allows for ownership, access to collect, use, and dispose of minor forest produce by forest dwellers.