3.1 - Land Acquisition Laws and Forest Rights
Channel: Nagrik Learning
Date: 11/04/2023

This lecture focusses on the laws of land acquisition and how they operate in the forests, affecting the rights of forest dwelling communities. We would understand what land acquisition means as a conceptual process and then survey the various laws of land acquisition. And thereafter, explore how this legal process is applied in the forests and how forest communities are affected.  

The lecture is part of a course ‘Critical Learnings on Forest and Adivasi Rights’, which is designed to create simplified knowledge material on forest rights and related laws for lawyers, social workers and activists who are representing the Adivasi and forest dwelling community in courts or are working with them for the realisation of their rights under the Constitution of India, the Forest Rights Act, 2006 (FRA) and the Panchayats (Extension to Scheduled Areas) Act, 1996 (PESA). This course will also be useful for students of law and social sciences who are interested in Adivasi movements for self-rule and forest related issues. They will also learn how the FRA intersects with other laws relating to forest governance, forest and wildlife conservation, mining laws, compensatory afforestation laws, environmental laws, and laws relating to food security and the right to information. 

The Course is divided into three modules, and this lecture is part of Module III: Exploring the convergences of FRA with other legislations.  

This lecture focusses on the laws of land acquisition and how they operate in the forests, affecting the rights of forest dwelling communities. We would understand what land acquisition means as a conceptual process and then survey the various laws of land acquisition. And thereafter, explore how this legal process is applied in the forests and how forest communities are affected.  

The lecture is part of a course ‘Critical Learnings on Forest and Adivasi Rights’, which is designed to create simplified knowledge material on forest rights and related laws for lawyers, social workers and activists who are representing the Adivasi and forest dwelling community in courts or are working with them for the realisation of their rights under the Constitution of India, the Forest Rights Act, 2006 (FRA) and the Panchayats (Extension to Scheduled Areas) Act, 1996 (PESA). This course will also be useful for students of law and social sciences who are interested in Adivasi movements for self-rule and forest related issues. They will also learn how the FRA intersects with other laws relating to forest governance, forest and wildlife conservation, mining laws, compensatory afforestation laws, environmental laws, and laws relating to food security and the right to information. 

The Course is divided into three modules, and this lecture is part of Module III: Exploring the convergences of FRA with other legislations.  

Read Supplementary material for this lecture at (give hyperlink) and a brief Q&A at (give hyperlink)

The course ‘Critical Learnings on Forest and Adivasi Rights’ is a collaboration between Legal Resource Centre, Delhi, Nagrik Open Civic Learning (give website) and Vasundhara, Odisha (give website).

Suggested citation: Lecture 3.1: Land Acquisition Laws and Forest Rights, Critical Learnings on Forest and Adivasi Rights, Legal Resource Centre, Delhi, Nagrik Open Civic Learning and Vasundhara, Odisha (2023).


Suggested citation: Lecture 3.1: Land Acquisition Laws and Forest Rights, Critical Learnings on Forest and Adivasi Rights, Legal Resource Centre, Delhi, Nagrik Open Civic Learning and Vasundhara, Odisha (2023).