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THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE FOREST RIGHTS ACT IN INDIA: CRITICAL ISSUES
Author(s) -
Sarker Debnarayan
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
economic affairs
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.24
H-Index - 18
eISSN - 1468-0270
pISSN - 0265-0665
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0270.2011.02097.x
Subject(s) - legislation , bureaucracy , property rights , law and economics , business , political science , public administration , environmental protection , law , economics , geography , politics
The Forest Rights Act 2006 was designed to provide secure property rights to the forest dwellers of India. This paper analyses the effect of the legislation and finds that it has proved largely ineffective at meeting its objectives. There is evidence to suggest that the implementation of the Act has been undermined by bureaucratic interests.