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Sept-Oct 2022

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TROUBLE IN THE JUNGLE

SYSTEMATIC EROSION OF RIGHTS OF FOREST DWELLERS

Development and conservation have always been a tough balancing act. Resource extraction and exploitation drive the wheels of economic progress, which in turn improves the quality of life for people. Development goals for large and populous countries like India dictate the pace and trajectory of social imperatives such as poverty elimination, food security, energy consumption, health, education, to name a few. But these imperatives directly clash with the need for ecological conservation.
In a broad sense, conservation doesn’t mean simply protecting our forests and rivers. It also means protecting the rights of the people who are directly dependent on them to derive their daily sustenance like adivasis, Scheduled Tribes and forest dwellers. They comprise sections of our population who live on the fringes of our society and are most vulnerable to the vagaries of resource exploitation. Further, they have lived on some of the most mineral-rich land for centuries, which gives them the rights to these common and collective resources…

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