2013 · Polity & GovernancePrevious Year Question
Q76.
Under the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006, who shall be the authority to initiate the process for determining the nature and extent of individual or community forest rights or both?
A. State Forest Department
B. District Collector/Deputy Commissioner
C. Tahsildar/Block Development Officer/Mandal Revenue Officer
D. Gram Sabha
Answer

D

Explanation

Under the Forest Rights Act 2006, Chapter IV clause 6(1), the Gram Sabha is the authority to initiate the process for determining the nature and extent of individual or community forest rights.