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Section 6 — Authorities to vest forest rights in forest dwelling Scheduled Tribes and other traditional forest dwellers and procedure thereof

Section 6

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Makes the Gram Sabha the authority that initiates recognition by receiving, consolidating and verifying claims, preparing a map and passing a resolution, which is forwarded to the Sub-Divisional Level Committee. An aggrieved person may petition that Committee within sixty days, and then the District Level Committee within sixty days of its decision; the District Level Committee's decision is final and binding. The State Government constitutes all three committees, and the State Level Monitoring Committee monitors recognition and reports to the nodal agency. The committees include Revenue, Forest and Tribal Affairs officers and three Panchayati Raj members, of whom two are Scheduled Tribe members and at least one is a woman.

Record details

Act number: 2 of 2007
Jurisdiction: India (Union)
Source record: India Code 123456789/619306 — A2007-02.pdf
Locator: Section 6

Source record

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 6Record India Code 123456789/619306 — A2007-02.pdf
“6. Authorities to vest forest rights in forest dwelling Scheduled Tribes and other traditional forest dwellers and procedure thereof.”
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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. Sub-sections (3), (5) and (7) constitute the Sub-Divisional Level Committee, District Level Committee and State Level Monitoring Committee respectively. Composition and procedure are left to rules under section 14.