जनजातीय कार्य मंत्रालय Ministry of Tribal Affairs
Government of India

Directions regarding rejected claims under FRA

• Compliance of the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006 (1.90 MB)
• Competion of FRA process in timebound manner Letter to Jharkhand dated 12/08/2015 (322 KB)
• Compliance of FRA before relocation from National Parks & Sanctuaries dated 10/04/2015 (506 KB)
• Guidelines for geo-referencing and potentiality mapping dated 27/07/2015 (208 KB)
• Information regarding rejected claims dated 05/02/2016 (1.26 MB)
• Recognition of CFR in Banni area dated 13/02/2019 (76 KB)
• Review of high rate of rejection in LWE areas dated 12/09/2014 (402 KB)
• Review of progress, pendancy and rejection dated 29/06/2018 (514 KB)
• Information on Rejected Claims dated 20/02/2019 (85 KB)
• Issues and Guidelines to impediments in the proper implementation of the FRA dated 10/04/2015 (58 KB)
• Review of high rate of Rejection in LWE areas dated 15/06/2015 (180 KB)
• Suo-motto review of Rejected Claims dated 16/06/2017 (249 KB)
• Training and use of technology dated 28/04/2015 (289 KB)

General Executive Directions on Implementation of FRA, 2006

• Provision of Funds from TSP for undertaking activities under Forest Rights Act-2006 -II(5th Apr, 2017) (341 KB)
• Provision of Funds from TSP for undertaking activities under Forest Rights Act-2006 -I(21st Mar, 2017) (993 KB)
• Clarification regarding approval of Gorakhaland Territorial Administration as competent authority - letter dated 08.10.2015 (490 KB)
• Implementation of FRA in Hill district of Assam - letter dated 09.09.2015 (394 KB)
• Guideline for use of Geo-referencing for assessment of potential areas and re-examination of rejected claims - letter dated 27.07.2015 (220 KB)
• Roadmap for FRA implementation in states with low implementation through campaign mode - letter dated 10.06.2015 (1.11 MB)
• Training and use of technology for proper implementation of FRA, 2006 - letter dated 28.04.2015 (377 KB)
• Reporting of Rejected claims - letter dated 10.11.2010 (1.07 MB)
• Review of high rate of rejections of FRA claims in Left Wing Extremism (LWE) affected areas - Issues regarding – letter dated 12.09.2014 (565 KB)
• Convergence with MGNREGA and schemes of MoTA in tribal areas with FRA - letter dated 27.07.2010 and 10.06.2010 and 28.04.2010 (1.11 MB)
• Monitoring with SLMC - letter dated 20.07.2010 (741 KB)
• Procedure for seeking prior approval for diversion of forest land for non-forest purposes for facilities managed by the Government under Section 3(2) of the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006 (89 KB)

Implementation of Forest Rights Act in Protected Areas
• Eviction due to non-settlement of forest rights - letter dated 24.05.2012 (1.67 MB)
• Eviction of STs & OTFDs from premises of National Parks & Wildlife Sanctuaries without settling rights - letter dated 21.06.2010 (871 KB)
• Relocation of people from tiger habitats - letter dated 08.09.2009 (485 KB)and 08.09.2008 (527 KB)
• Conferring rights under ST and OTFD (Recognition of Rights) Act, 2006 in Critical Tiger Habitats -letter dated 28.03.2017 (290 KB)
• Conferring rights in Core/ Crtical Tiger Habitats of Tiger Reserve - letter dated 12.03.2018 (356 KB)

Implementation of Forest Rights Act in Critical Wildlife Habitats
• Guidelines for notification of Critical Wildlife Habitats- letter dated 04.01.2018 (1.39 MB)
• Guidelines to notify critical wildlife habitat - letter dated 27.09.2007 (3.52 MB)

Minor Forest Produce
• Inter relationship between FRA and PESA with reference to MFP - letter dated 13.02.2015 (753 KB)
• Guidelines for operational manual of scheme mechanism for marketing of MFP - letter dated 20.01.2014 (2.28 MB)
• Ensuring fair returns to MFP / NTFP gatherers - letter dated 02.01.2014 (404 KB)

Community and Community Resource Rights
• Recognition and vesting of Community and Community Resource rights - letter dated 22.09.2015 (413 KB)
• Clarification for vesting CFR rights with VSS / JFMC etc - letter dated 20.08.2015 and 06.08.2013 (413 KB)
• Guidelines regarding vesting of CFR its management - letter dated 23.04.2015
• Ownership rights of Tendupatta under CFR - letter dated 04.05.2010 (356 KB)

Conversion of Forest villages into Revenue villages
• Clarification for vesting CFR rights with VSS / JFMC etc - letter dated 20.08.2015 and 06.08.2013 (298 KB)

Development of FRA (including Diversion of Land)
• Guidelines for diversion of forest land for non-forest purpose- letter dated 21.10.2014 (265 KB)
• Existing guidelines for diversion of forest land and provisions of FRA - letter dated 27.08.2014 (539 KB)
• Procedure for seeking prior approval for diversion of land under Section 3(2) - letter dated 18.05.2009 (89 KB)
• Position of law against MoEF&CC circular dated 3rd Aug 2009 - letter dated 07.03.2014 (2.95 KB)

Municipal Areas and Forest Rights Act
• Applicability of FRA in Municipal areas - letter dated 05.03.2015 (521 KB)

Specific Issues
• Clarification in respect of evidences under rule 13 of Scheduled Tribes and OTFDs(Recognition of forest Rights) Rules, 2007 (280 KB)
• Forest Offences - letter dated 13.05.2008 (141 KB)
• Clarification on Primarily Reside in - letter dated 09.06.2008 (410 KB)

Record of Rights
• Directions on Record of Rights, Caste and Village map - letter dated 03.03.2014 (440 KB)
• Grant of Land rights under taungya cultivators - letter dated 06.05.2010 (181 KB)