UPSC Previous Year Question | Prelims GS | 2019

Consider the following statements: 1. As per recent amendment to the Indian Forest Act, 1927, forest dwellers have the right to fell the bamboos grown on forest areas. 2. As per the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006, bamboo is a minor forest produce. 3. The Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006 allows ownership of minor forest produce to forest dwellers. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

  1. 1 and 2 only
  2. 2 and 3 only
  3. 3 only
  4. 1, 2 and 3

Answer

Correct Answer

2 and 3 only

Explanation

The amendment to the Indian Forest Act removed bamboo grown on non-forest (private) land from the definition of 'tree' so that no felling/transit permit is needed; bamboo grown in forest areas is not covered, so statement 1 is wrong. The Forest Rights Act, 2006 treats bamboo as minor forest produce and recognises the right of ownership, collection, use and disposal of minor forest produce by forest dwellers, so statements 2 and 3 are correct.

Topics: bamboo and minor forest produce, environment and ecology, forest laws, forest rights act and indian forest act