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. Translation of the Act and the rules in local languages and their distribution is one of the key components of the Act. The same could not be done in Meghalaya and Jharkhand even when Mr Kyndiah belonged to Meghalaya and the Minister of State (MoS) for Tribal Affairs Rameshwar Oraon hails from Jharkhand itself, the sources said. As per the latest data on state-wise implementation of the Act, tribal state Jharkhand ruled by five tribal chief ministers so far has failed to set-up even Gram Sabhas, the basic units for processing claims of beneficiaries on account of non-holding of Panchayat elections in the State. As such no claims could be received or processed there so far. In total, more than half a dozen states lag behind in implementing provisions of a central act. Incidentally, the act aimed at doing away the "historical injustice" done to the tribals in the country. The Central Government including Prime Minister Manmoahn Singh himself pitched in for the implementation Act. The same was mentioned in the Common Minimum Programme and publicised as one of the success story of the UPA Government even though several environmentalist raised concern over the controversial act. Three states have, meanwhile, informed the Centre that the Act is not applicable there. Another tribal state, Chhattisgarh, has not implemented the act but is in final stages of completing training for the Gram Sabhas for this purposes. Earlier, a review by the Ministry of Tribal Affairs showed that while some states moved ahead on the Act, a number of them were still to complete activities related to filing of claims and other works.