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Section 3 — Forest rights of Forest dwelling Scheduled Tribes and other traditional forest dwellers

Section 3

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Confers thirteen categories of forest rights, including habitation and self-cultivation, community rights such as nistar, ownership and disposal of minor forest produce, grazing and seasonal access, habitat rights for primitive tribal groups, rights over disputed lands, conversion of forest villages into revenue villages, and community forest resource management. Sub-section (2) permits diversion of less than one hectare of forest land for thirteen listed Government facilities, notwithstanding the Forest (Conservation) Act, 1980, where felling does not exceed seventy-five trees per hectare and the Gram Sabha recommends the clearance.

Record details

Act number: 2 of 2007
Jurisdiction: India (Union)
Source record: India Code 123456789/619306 — A2007-02.pdf
Locator: Section 3

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The Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006 — India Code consolidated text (as on 15 April 2026)
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Official documentSection 3Record India Code 123456789/619306 — A2007-02.pdf
“3. Forest rights of Forest dwelling Scheduled Tribes and other traditional forest dwellers.”
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Fetched from India Code on 23 October 2026. The PDF is the consolidated Act as on 15 April 2026 and lists only the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019 (34 of 2019) as an amending Act. Section headings, text and footnotes are taken from it; the provisions have not had a separate legal review.

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Section heading and summary derived from the official text; not separately reviewed. The Act is covered in full. The India Code text prints “tradional” in this heading; the standard spelling is used here. Clause (l) excludes the traditional right of hunting or trapping or extracting a part of the body of any wild animal.