Section 4 (1) of Forest Rights Act (FRA) mentions that land ownership in case of death will be transferred but there was no provision in the FRA rules regarding the process of transfer of name or demarcation of occupied forest land to lawful heir in case of death of individual forest rights holder.A decision was taken by the Vishnu Deo Sai government to safeguard the interest of the deserving beneficiaries. “Under the leadership of CM Vishnu Deo Sai and tribal development minister Ram Vichar Netam, a comprehensive line of action has been chalked out to adopt practices on changing names of forest land ownership, demarcation, division and correction of errors. The ST-SC welfare department is a nodal agency that is coordinating with the departments of revenue and forest”, Sonmoni Borah, principal secretary, ST-SC development department told this newspaper.
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