2.5 - Community Forest Rights and Mining Laws
Channel: Nagrik Learning
Date: 2023-04-11

This lecture examines the basics of mining law in India, under the Constitution of India and the Mines and Minerals (Regulation and Development) Act, 1957. It further explores how this area of law intersects with the architecture of laws which protect Adivasi and forest rights, such as the Panchayats (Extension to Scheduled Areas) Act, 1997, the Forest Rights Act, 2006 as well as laws relating to land acquisition, environmental protection, and so on.

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 II: Basic Premise of FRA.  

Read Supplementary material for this lecture and a brief Q&A at www.nagriklearning.com.

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

Suggested citation: Lecture 2.5: Community Forest Rights and Mining Laws, Critical Learnings on Forest and Adivasi Rights, Legal Resource Centre, Delhi, Nagrik Open Civic Learning and Vasundhara, Odisha (2023).