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Amendments in Indian Forest Act, 1927

The document discusses proposed amendments to the Indian Forest Act of 1927. It aims to prevent unnecessary harassment of forest dwellers and tribes for minor offenses by allowing forest officers to accept compensation from suspected violators. The amendments increase the amount of compensation that can be accepted and require forest officers in Scheduled Areas to obtain the views of local village councils before collecting compensation. The overall goal is to address livelihood issues of forest communities while still regulating forest activities.

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Amendments in Indian Forest Act, 1927

The document discusses proposed amendments to the Indian Forest Act of 1927. It aims to prevent unnecessary harassment of forest dwellers and tribes for minor offenses by allowing forest officers to accept compensation from suspected violators. The amendments increase the amount of compensation that can be accepted and require forest officers in Scheduled Areas to obtain the views of local village councils before collecting compensation. The overall goal is to address livelihood issues of forest communities while still regulating forest activities.

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AMENDMEN TS IN INDIAN FOREST ACT,1927

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PRESENTED BY ANUSHA GUPTA AKSHAY BHALLA

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INDIAN FOREST ACT, 1927

INDIAN FOREST ACT, 1878 first and most famous act and both the acts were implemented under British. act reserve the areas having forest cover, or significant wildlife. regulates movement & transit of forest produce also define what is forest offence and area to be a Reserved Forest, a Protected Forest or a Village forest.

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The A.

State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, empower a Forest- officer. to accept from any person against whom a reasonable suspicion exists that he has committed any forestoffence, a sum of money by way of compensation for the offence. when any property has been seized as liable to confiscation, to release the same on payment of the value thereof as estimated by such officer.

INDIAN FOREST ACT, (SEC.68)

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B.

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On the payment of such sum of money, or such value, as the case may be, to such officer, the suspected person, if in custody, shall be discharged, the property, if any, seized shall be released, and no further proceedings shall be taken against such person or property. Forest- officer shall not be empowered under this section unless he is a Forest- officer of a rank not inferior to that of a Ranger and is in receipt of a monthly salary amounting to at least one hundred rupees, and the sum of money accepted as compensation under clause (a) of sub- section (1)

THE INDIAN FOREST (AMENDMENT) BILL, 2012


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sub-section (3) of section 68 of the Indian Forest Act, 1927,

(a) the words and is in receipt of a monthly salary amounting to at least one hundred rupees shall be omitted; (b) for the words fifty rupees, the words ten thousand rupees shall be substituted;
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Scheduled Areas, the Forest-officer shall, before exercising the powers vested under this section, obtain and record the views of the Gram Sabha concerned.

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CONCLUSION

This act was basically implemented to to stop instances of unnecessary harassment and prosecution of forest dwellers and tribal for minor offences. the above, the Union ministry of Environment and Forests, asked state governments to declare bamboo as a minor forest produce to address livelihood issues of forest dwellers and tribal. It should be noted that bamboo is a traditional source of subsistence for tribal. will have a check on illegal felling of trees.

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THANK YOU

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