New Agasthyamalai eviction orders continue to silence Forest Rights Act
The FRA does not require that traditional forest-dwellers have to have occupied the land they are claiming for three generations before 2005 nor does it prohibit commercial activities on all forest lands – yet the administration and the judiciary have hampered its implementation on these grounds
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