A fact-finding committee of Call For Justice, a Delhi-based organisation, visited the tribal hamlets in Mysuru to apprise itself of the status of implementation of the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006.
The committee members were in Mysuru district from July 27 to 29 and this is a follow up of their similar visits to Maharashtra, Assam, Odisha and Chhattisgarh.
The committee sought information on the factual position and situation with respect to grant of individual forest rights as well as community forest rights to the forest-dwelling STs and other traditional forest dwellers. The members included V.K. Bahuguna, retired Indian Forest Service official, Ritwik Dutta, advocate, and Sanjay Kulkarni of CFJ. They interacted with tribals besides Forest Department officials.
