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GOVERNMENT OF ARUNACHAL PRADESH

DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT, FORESTS & CLIMATE CHANGE
ITANAGAR

File No. FOR. 91/CAMPA/2011/P t-A/~1- l 0 Dated: ';(1\, Dec' 2023.

To,

(Shivanand S Talawar)
Assistant Inspector General of Forest,
Govt. of India,
MoEF & CC (National Authority),
Hall No. 1, 4th Floor,
Block No. 3, CGO Complex,
Lodhi Road, New Delhi- I I0003
E-mail:- adhoc-campa-mef@nic.in

Sub:- Rajya Sabha Starred/Unstarred Diary No. S1953 due for answer on 07.12.2023 regarding
"Compliance of Forest Right Act-2006"-reg.
Ref:- File No. NA-8/4/2021-NA.

Sir,

With reference to your letter on the subject mentioned above, the reply on the Starred/Unstarred
Question Diary No. S 1953 of Rajya Sabha is as below:-

SI.No. Query Reply

(a) What is the mechanism to ensure
compliance of Forest Rights Act, 2006
(FRA) in implementation of Compensatory
Afforestation projects?
Under Sub-rule 3(k) of Rule 4 of the
Compensatory Afforestation Rules, 2018
notified by the State Government, safeguard
have been provided for implementation of the
Forest Rights Act, 2006 which is as under:
"Activities over forest land under the control of
State Forest Department of State Government
and being managed as per the working plan shall
be taken up in consultation with the Gram Sabha
or Village Forest Management Committee, as
the case may be, and shall be inconsonance with
the provisions of the Scheduled Tribes and Other
Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of
Forest Rights) Act, 2006 (2 of 2007) and the
guidelines issued there under, wherever
applicable.
Further, in case the said activities are to be
undertaken in areas not covered by the approved
working plan then activities referred to in sub
rules (2) and (3)shall be taken up in consultation
with concerned Gram Sabha or Village Forest
Management Committee or any authority having
jurisdiction over that area, as the case may be,
and shall be in consonance with the provisions
of the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional
Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights)
Act, 2006 (2 of 2007) and guidelines issued
thereunder, wherever applicable."

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(b) What steps have been taken to safeguard As stated at (a) above.
rights of tribals and forest dwellers while
disbursing CA funds to the States? What is
the mechanism to ensure the informed
consent of ·Gram Sabhas while
imolementin2 CAF Proiects?
(c) What is the mechanism to transfer CA The funds are not directly provided to the Gram
funds directly to the Gram Sabhas? Please Sabhas under CAMPA.
orovide detai Is.
Yours faithfully

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Conservator ofForests (HQ) (Environment, Forest & Climate Change)