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Baiga Tribal Group - Habitat rights
October 19 , 2023
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- The Baiga Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Group (PVTG) became the second to get habitat rights in Chhattisgarh.
- A total of 19 Baiga villages with a population of 6,483 people (2,085 families) have been given the habitat rights.
- Habitat rights recognition provides the community concerned rights over their customary territory of habitation, socio-cultural practices, economic and livelihood means, intellectual knowledge of biodiversity and ecology, traditional knowledge of use of natural resources, as well as protection and conservation of their natural and cultural heritage.
- Habitat rights safeguard and promote the traditional livelihood and ecological knowledge passed down through generations.
- Habitat rights are given to PVTGs under section 3(1) (e) of the Forest Rights Act 2006.
- Earlier the Kamar Tribal Group get habitat rights in the state.
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