Forest Rights Act fails to give desired result
The much touted Scheduled Tribes and Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act 2006 has not made much progress in several states including in the states of two concerned ministers - PR Kyndiah and his Deputy Rameshwar Oraon. And the reason for such lax, given in case of home states of both the Ministers - Meghalaya and Jharkhand, is quite interesting. In Meghalaya, the translation of the Act in local languages is held up on account of "non-availability of the Act's legal lexicon in local languages," according to sources.