The Forest Rights Act, 2006 is an act to recognize and vest the forest rights and occupations in forest land in forest dwelling Scheduled Tribes and other traditional forest dwellers who have been residing in such forests for generations. It secures individual or community tenure or both to these traditional forest dwellers for habitation or self cultivation for livelihood. Community rights, such as nistar and so on.

Ø Right of ownership, access to collect, use, and dispose of minor forest produce (includes all non-timber forest produce of plant origin) which has been traditionally collected within or outside village boundaries;

Ø Other community rights of uses of entitlements such as fish and other products of water bodies, grazing (both settled or transhumant) and traditional seasonal resource access of nomadic or pastoralist communities;

Ø Right to protect, regenerate or conserve or manage any community forest resource which they have been traditionally protecting and conserving for sustainable use.

Under this, MPSSS has played a major role and till continues to get the entitlements, mainly the Individual Forest Rights. Till now, around 4832 people have received their entitlements in our target areas. Still 5256 applications are in process. Apart from this, the community members have taken a pledge to conserve their forest.