Agartala: Septuagenarian Rabirung Rupini of Khamtingbari in Tripura’s West district will continue to live in forest but with a difference – she will own a piece of land there with all rights.
Rupini became the first beneficiary of Centre’s scheme of granting land rights to forest dwellers in the whole of North-east yesterday, when she received the documents from Chief Minister Manik Sarkar in a public gathering of tribals at Mandai, about 30 km from here.
She was one among the 35 recipients. Official sources said the government started distributing patta (ownership rights) to indigenous tribals living in forests as part of implementing “Scheduled Tribes and other traditional forest dwellers (recognition of forest rights) Act 2005.
Long cherished dreams of the people living inside the forests of the country have been fulfilled after the enactment by the Centre, Sarkar said. Similar land rights should also be applicable for the non-tribals living in forests for a long time.
Altogether 126,000 tribal and forest dwellers had claimed land rights of which 22,000 claims were found valid and 11,500 have been settled.
Source: Assam Tribune
Rupini became the first beneficiary of Centre’s scheme of granting land rights to forest dwellers in the whole of North-east yesterday, when she received the documents from Chief Minister Manik Sarkar in a public gathering of tribals at Mandai, about 30 km from here.
She was one among the 35 recipients. Official sources said the government started distributing patta (ownership rights) to indigenous tribals living in forests as part of implementing “Scheduled Tribes and other traditional forest dwellers (recognition of forest rights) Act 2005.
Long cherished dreams of the people living inside the forests of the country have been fulfilled after the enactment by the Centre, Sarkar said. Similar land rights should also be applicable for the non-tribals living in forests for a long time.
Altogether 126,000 tribal and forest dwellers had claimed land rights of which 22,000 claims were found valid and 11,500 have been settled.
Source: Assam Tribune
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