Independent People’s Tribunal: An Inquiry into the Status of Implementation of the Forest Rights Act
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March 2017
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The Independent People’s Tribunal (IPT) undertook an inquiry on the status of implementation of FRA to understand and analyze the reasons behind the lack of implementation and/or the violations in the implementation of the Act. The objectives of IPT were to:
1. Identify and analyze the various violations happening across states on the implementation
of FRA, and whether they are procedural or structural in nature.
2. The direct and indirect impact its non-implementation would have/has had on the
communities.
3. Assess the status of FRA thereof.
