Three mass organisations of opposition CPI (M) staged demonstration here today protesting against proposed amendment of Forest Right Act 2006, which they believe will cause eviction of about 30 lakh forest dwellers from the forest areas of the country.
Addressing the gathering, former Loksabha MP Jitendra Chaudhury said after Supreme Court (SC) had ordered to remove people, who are living in forest areas for less than 75 years, in February this year, after the Central government placed the report on Forest and Wild Life welfare on favour of a writ petition filed by an NGO against the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006.
He said that if implemented, the livelihood of about 30 lakh forest dwellers would come to end who have been protecting about 21 per cent forest areas of the country.
During the UPA regimes, the Left Front and other democratic parties protested for proper implementation of Forest Rights Act 2006, which accepted indigenous people living under nature (forests) for decades as the inheritors of the forest land, said Chaudhury. (UNI)
LF mass organisations protest over amendment move of FRA
