Implementation of Forest Rights Act, 2006

Ministry of Tribal Affairs Implementation of Forest Rights Act, 2006

Posted On: 24 JUL 2025 5:15PM by PIB Delhi Replying to the question of Shri Benny Behanan and Shri K Radhakrishnan the Union Minister for Tribal Affairs Shri Jual Oram today laid a statement in Lok Sabha stating that the Ministry of Tribal Affairs, being the Nodal Ministry for administering the legislative matters of the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006 and Rules made thereunder, by exercising power under Section 12 of the Act, has been issuing directions and guidelines from time to time on various aspects to ensure proper implementation of the Act. As per FRA and rules made thereunder, respective State Governments/ UT Administrations are responsible for implementation of various provisions of the FR Act and are being implemented in 20 States and 1 UT.

Ministry of Tribal Affairs seeks a Monthly Progress Report from the States/UTs, as per the latest information reported by States and collated under MPR till 31st May, 2025, a total of 25,11,375 titles have been recognised, comprising 23,89,670 individual and 1,21,705 community titles over the extent of 2,32,73,947.39 acres of forest land. The state wise details are enclosed at Annexure I.

The details of allocation and expenditure for TSP by States/UTs, out of their own funds, are available at

https://statetsp.tribal.gov.in Monitoring of TSP is done based on the State TSP Guidelines issued by the Planning Commission in 2014.

As informed by Ministry of Rural Development, Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (Mahatma Gandhi NREGS) is a demand - driven wage employment Scheme. It provides for the enhancement of livelihood security of the households in rural areas of the country by providing at least one hundred days of guaranteed wage employment in every financial year to every household whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work. It also mandates an extra 50 days of wage employment for Scheduled Tribe households in forest areas and provides for an additional 50 days of wage employment in drought or natural calamity-affected rural areas. State Governments may allocate additional days of employment beyond the guaranteed period using their funds. Implementation of the scheme is the responsibility of the State and several provisions for proper implementation have been provided in the Mahatma Gandhi NREGS.

Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) monitors the progress of vacancies in posts reserved for Scheduled Tribes candidates in the Union Government. As informed by DoPT, “Occurrence and filling of vacancies, along with backlog reserved vacancies, is a continuous process. Instructions have been issued to all Ministries/Departments of the Central Government to constitute an In-House Committee for identification of backlog reserved vacancies, to study the root cause of such vacancies, to initiate measures to remove the factors causing such vacancies and to fill them up through Special Recruitment Drives. The details of vacancies are maintained by the respective Ministry/ Department. Ministries/Departments of the Central Government have been directed, from time to time, to fill up the vacant posts in a time bound manner. Each Ministry/Department of the Central Government is required to designate an officer of the rank of Deputy Secretary and above, as Liaison Officer, to ensure due compliance of the orders and instructions pertaining to reservation. Further, each Ministry/Department is required to set up a Special Reservation Cell under the direct control of the Liaison Officer to assist her/him in discharge of duties. However, it is informed that as per the data furnished by the Ministries/ Departments as on 1.1.2025, more than 4.65 lakh backlog vacancies have been filled since 2016, including more than 1.15 lakh ST vacancies. Further, the representation of ST in the total employee strength reported by Ministries/ Departments to DoPT is 8.8%.” In addition to the above, the Department of Public Enterprises has been informed that- “As per information available in Public Enterprises Survey 2023-24 (as on 31.3.2024), out of the 8.12 lakh total employees in operating Central Public Sector Enterprises, 0.88 lakh (10.85%) were from Scheduled Tribes”.The number of tribal students benefited from pre-matric and post-matric scholarship schemes during the last 3 years is enclosed at Annexure-II.

Annexure-I State wise details of claims received, titles distributed and the extent of forest land for which titles distributed (individual and community), as on 31.05.2025, is indicated below:

No. of Titles Distributed Extent of Forest land for which titles distributed (in acres) S. No. States/ UT Individua Communi Individua Commun Total Total l ty l ity 981,160.0 1 Andhra Pradesh 226,651 1,822 228,473 454,706 526,454 0 2 Assam 57,325 1,477 58,802 NA/NR NA/NR NA/NR 3 Bihar 191 0 191 53.03 0.00 53 949,770.8 9,102,957 10,052,72 4 Chhattisgarh 481,432 52,636 534,068 9 .49 8.38 5 Goa 856 15 871 1,506.45 18.66 1,525.11 168,448.8 1,240,680 1,409,128 6 Gujarat 98,732 4,792 103,524 3 .15 .99 H i m a c h a l 7 662 146 808 126.65 62,677.24 62,803.89 Pradesh 153,395.8 103,758.9 257,154.8 8 Jharkhand 59,866 2,104 61,970 6 7 3 9 Karnataka 14,981 1,345 16,326 20,077.30 36,340.52 56,417.82 788,651.2 827,461.8 10 Kerala 29,422 282 29,704 38,810.58 5 3 M a d h y a 903,533.0 1,463,614 2,367,147 11 266,901 27,976 294,877 Pradesh 6 .46 .52 461,491.2 3,371,497 3,832,988 12 Maharashtra 199,667 8,668 208,335 5 .43 .68 674,775.3 743,193.3 1,417,968 13 Odisha 462,067 8,832 470,899 3 9 .72 239,763.9 310,151.1 14 Rajasthan 49,215 2,551 51,766 70,387.18 5 3 15 Tamil Nadu 15,442 1,066 16,508 22,104.80 60,468.77 82,573.57 669,689.1 457,663.1 1,127,352 16 Telangana 230,735 721 231,456 4 7 .32 465,192.8 465,745.2 17 Tripura 127,931 101 128,032 552.40 8 8 18 Uttar Pradesh 22,537 893 23,430 NA/NR NA/NR NA/NR 19 Uttarakhand 184 1 185 0.00 0.00 0.00 20 West Bengal 44,444 686 45,130 21,014.27 572.03 21,586.29 J a m m u & 21 429 5,591 6,020 NA/NR NA/NR NA/NR Kashmir2,511,37 5075083. 18198863 23273947 TOTAL 2,389,670 121,705 5 51 .89 .39 NA/NR-Related figure is either not available or not reported.

Annexure -II Details of Beneficiaries to State Governments/UT Administrations thereof under the Scheme of Post-Matric Scholarship for ST students Name of the Sl.No. A.Y. 2022-23 A.Y. 2023-24 A.Y. 2024-25 State/UT 1 A.& N. Islands 386 193 311 2 Andhra Pradesh 129032 79780 67888 A r u n a c h a l 3 46330 42417 45125 Pradesh 4 Assam 62140 58774 77350 5 Bihar 3768 1444 3428 6 Chhattisgarh 34184 40552 34022 7 DNH DD 2208 1053 1627 8 Goa 4439 3274 3163 9 Gujarat 262538 226456 233161 H i m a c h a l 10 4303 4390 4937 Pradesh J a m m u & 11 10430 7319 15309 Kashmir 12 Jharkhand 147633 148676 65104 13 Karnataka 131968 123707 125823 14 Kerala 17652 12721 13072 15 Ladakh 8619 9413 8969 M a d h y a 16 391317 353486 326410 Pradesh 17 Maharashtra 106817 130359 33432 18 Manipur 42572 33542 32275 19 Meghalaya 61360 76755 73902 20 Mizoram 38784 31685 28471 21 Nagaland 40638 42485 41793 22 Odisha 204172 213957 230366 23 Puducherry 18 11 10 24 Rajasthan 236628 168516 * 25 Sikkim 2650 1849 2411 26 Tamil Nadu 23529 25216 2827327 Telangana 114911 131505 131032 28 Tripura 37380 33678 33506 29 Uttar Pradesh 9655 9676 10427 30 Uttarakhand 3534 3972 4766 31 West Bengal 63208 37760 29528 Total 2242803 2054621 1705891 *- beneficiary data not reported by State/UT Details of Beneficiaries to State Governments/UT Administrations thereof under the Scheme of Pre- Matric Scholarship for ST students Name of the Sl.No. A.Y. 2022-23 A.Y. 2023-24 A.Y. 2024-25 State/UT A n d a m a n & 1 260 173 281 Nicobar 2 Andhra Pradesh 40465 0 0 3 Arunachal Pradesh 5178 2852 2831 4 Assam 5688 4353 8075 5 Bihar 26450 8451 15139 6 Chhattisgarh 28642 44837 27171 7 DNH & DD 2017 1273 1162 10 Goa 2108 1670 1698 11 Gujarat 157553 121083 124886 12 Himachal Pradesh 2479 2616 3260 13 Jammu & Kashmir 4689 2548 8371 14 Jharkhand 129269 114519 129142 15 Karnataka 98705 97191 104211 16 Kerala 7604 7323 10312 17 Ladakh 760 2228 2029 18 Madhya Pradesh 255944 259997 212347 19 Manipur 1836 3470 3916 20 Meghalaya 1588 5590 6149 21 Mizoram 10312 8911 8807 22 Nagaland * * * 23 Odisha 79252 106691 122029 24 Puducherry 21 11 14 25 Rajasthan 73816 76272 57037 26 Sikkim 49 62 377 27 Tamil Nadu 15325 17557 1917828 Telangana 9255 2460 * 29 Tripura 15017 11601 12597 30 Uttar Pradesh 1579 2329 3211 31 Uttarakhand 1464 902 * 32 West Bengal 23979 21789 24333 Total 1001304 928759 908563 *- beneficiary data not reported by State/UT ***** RN (Release ID: 2147815)