Rehabilitating Tribals with Restoration of Lands

In order to rehabilitate tribals, the State governments have accepted the policy of prohibiting the transfer of land from tribals to non-tribals and restoration of alienated tribal lands to them. The States with large tribal population have enacted laws for this purpose. As per information received from the States/UTs up to July, 2010, 4.77 lakh cases of tribal land alienation have been registered covering 8.10 lakh acres of lands of which 3.78 lakh cases covering 7.86 lakh acres have been decided by the Court. 2.09 lakh cases have been decided in favour of tribals covering a total area of 4.06 lakh acres and under Section 4(m)(iii) of the PESA the Gram Sabha and the Panchayats are endowed specifically with the power to prevent alienation of land in the Scheduled Areas.

This information was given by Shri. Tushar A. Chaudhary, the Minister of State for Tribal Affairs, in a written reply to a question in Lok Sabha.

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