Question

What are the impact of the enactment of forest act on the condition of the people?

Answer 1

the life of villagers were affected by forest act were as follows:
1 now the villages are deprived by their practices like hunting ,cutting ,grazing, cattle ,collective fruits etc.
2 one of the major impact is the practice of shifting cultivation ,swidden agriculture.
3 people were now forced to steal wood from forest and if they were caught, they were as the mercy of the forest guard who would take brieves from them.
4 women who collected fuel woods were specially worried.
5 it was common for police constable and forest Guard to harass people by demanding free food from them.