Question

Under the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006, who shall be the authority to initiate the process for determining the nature and extent of individual or community forest rights or both ?

(a) State Forest Department
(b) District Collector / Deputy Commissioner
(c) Tahsildar / Block Development Officer / Mandal Revenue Officer
(d) Gram Sabha

Answer 1

d) Gram Sabha 

   As per the section 6 of the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act , 2006, the Gram Sabha is the authority to initiate the process for determining the nature and extent of individual right or community forest rights or both.

  This is the central government act of 2006.  Gram Sabha receives claims and verifies them. It is supposed to prepare a map of the forest area.  After it approves and passes a resolution, it is supposed to pass a copy of it to the sub divisional level committee.  This committee is constituted by the state government.

   Then it is passed to the district level committee. Then to the state level monitoring committee. All these are constituted by the state government.

Answer 2

Heya...

Option D ... gram Sabha is the answer....

-->> As per the section 6 scheduled tribes, and other Forest dwellers for act 2006 Gram Sabha is the authority to initiate the process for defending the nature and individual as well as communal rights....