Rajasthan government is Fleece and flip-over on forest rights implementation
Dear friends
Jindabad
On 1st of January 2008 when the central government of India has notified the forest right act rules and issued notification and circular to all state and union territory of India. The forest department of Rajasthan and state government are jointly planning to maximum displacement of tribal and other forest dwellers.
The forest department of Rajasthan has not a clear stand about forest dwellers to give explanation for their traditional forest rights. Department is still suffering from feudal attitude with fanaticism like British era. I have seen almost more then 15 incident of displacement in past two months in south Rajasthan and all these effected people are tribal.
Banswara district is center place of farce and farcical according implementation of forest right act. Everybody knows in forest right act rules there is no provision to reject the claims directly by forester even he could not lift up his any comment about it. Only
FRC (forest right committee) is a legally responsible for physical verification and comment then FRC submits the all claims to gram sabha for discussion and further verification of each individual claim. After the resolution of gram sabha claims forward to SDO level committee.
But in Banswara displacement is going on illegally with involvement of district collector.
District administration is providing to all feasible help to forest department along-with police protection in the name of save the environment. Without giving a any information's and legal notice. Displacement programme is going on by forest department.
In Navatapra (a hamlet of Badodia village) department displaced to Nanjis family in last week of June 2008.departmet had gone there with police and destroyed his house his crops and beaten to his all family members with him. They all were hospitalized.
Nanjis lodged FIR angist the forest department in IPC of atrocity and SC.ST act.
But responsible persons were not arrested till now. Publish of latest news in Banswara local news papers is showing attitude of local administration according news the district collector is saying "I will give all possible help and protections to forest department to remove the forest encroachers from forest area of entire district".
This is very unexpected statement by the collector after the giving in written reassurance by the tribal commissioner of Rajasthan to JUNGLE JAMEEN JAN ANDOLAN during the indefinite sit-in on 25th July 2008 (Tribal department is nodal agency of implement the forest right act in Rajasthan)
Considerable problem is unforeseen attitude about forest right act of concerning employees at local level. Due to this weak point forest department is underplaying of this act and trying to flip-over to implement this act in Rajasthan.
Yours colleague
The gurjar
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