Consider the following statements

2019

Consider the following statements:

1. As per recent amendment to the Indian Forest Act, 1927, forest dwellers have the right to fell the bamboos grown on forest areas.
2. As per the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006, bamboo is a minor forest produce.
3. The Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006 allows ownership of minor forest produce to forest dwellers.

Which of the statements given above is / are correct?

(a)

1 and 2 only

(b)

2 and 3 only

(c)

3 only

(d)

1, 2 and 3

Explanation

Statement 1 is incorrect: bamboo is no longer a tree and felled bamboo too is not timber. Statement 2 is Correct: As per the Scheduled Tribes and Other traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006 it recognises bamboo as a Minor Forest Produce. Statement 3 is correct: The rights which are included in section 3(1) of theScheduled Tribes and Other traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act of 2006vests the “right of ownership, access to collect, use and dispose of minor forest produce” with scheduled tribes and traditional forest dwellers.