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- The Tribal affairs ministry recently constituted a committee on Community Forest Resources (CFR Guideline) under the Forest Rights Act, 2006 (FRA).
- The ministry created a committee headed by NC Saxena, former member of the Planning Commission of India and of the National Advisory Council.
- The CFR right under the FRA empowers Gram Sabha to conserve and manage their forest.
- In 2016, CFR guidelines were prepared by MoTA, in consultation with the Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF&CC).
- Earlier the Ministry of Tribal Affairs (MoTA) appointed committee to facilitate legal recognition for Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups (PVTG).
- It was headed by former MoTA secretary Hrusikesh Panda.
- These committee members decided to visit Jammu and Kashmir, Odisha, Madhya Pradesh and Uttarakhand.
- Under FRA, habitat rights are given to PVTGs and pre-agriculture communities and it gives them access to the resources in the area recognized as their habitat.
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