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The Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006

Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006

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Summary

An Act to recognise and vest forest rights and occupation in forest land in forest dwelling Scheduled Tribes and other traditional forest dwellers whose rights could not be recorded. It sets out thirteen categories of forest rights, a Gram Sabha-led recognition procedure, three tiers of committees, and the Ministry of Tribal Affairs as nodal agency. All fourteen sections of the consolidated Act are modelled; the Act has no schedules.

Record details

Act number: 2 of 2007
Jurisdiction: India (Union)
Status: In force
Enacted: 29 Dec 2006
Commenced: 31 Dec 2007
Source record: 123456789/619306
Locator: Act record

Source record

The Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006 — India Code record
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Fetched from India Code on 23 October 2026. The record identifies Act 2 of 2007, dates it 29 December 2006, names the Ministry of Tribal Affairs as the administering ministry and records the Act as not repealed. The record has not had a separate legal review.

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Act 2 of 2007, assented on 29 December 2006. Section 1(3) leaves commencement to notification; S.O. 2224(E), dated 31 December 2007, appointed 31 December 2007. The exclusion of Jammu and Kashmir was omitted by Act 34 of 2019, s. 95 and the Fifth Schedule, w.e.f. 31 October 2019.