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New Delhi: Union Environment Minister, Jairam Ramesh, announced that the Government would amend the colonial period legislation ? Indian Forest Act, 1927 ? to curtail the powers given to forest department to foist criminal cases against tribal.
He said that Government is bringing about amendments to the Indian Forest Act in order to ensure that the cases are not foisted on tribal communities? people who are going into forests daily and picking up their daily requirements. That is one big complaint against the forest department.
Ramesh was speaking while formally receiving the Forest Rights Act review committee report. The report was prepared by a panel headed by NAC member N C Saxena.
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