Himachal Villages Claim Community Forest Rights For The First Time
by The Daily Eye Team June 12 2015, 5:35 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 24 secsMore than 100 villages in Himachal Pradesh have filed their community forest rights claims for the first time since Forest Rights Act (FRA) of 2006 came into being. This happened after the Himachal Pradesh High Court passed an order, in April 2015, asking the government to remove any kind of encroachment in the forests of the state. Himachal Pradesh is one of the few states where the act has not yet been implemented completely.