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25 May, 2020
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Mankind is one of the 13 Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups (PVTG) in Odisha. They critically depend on making rope with small fibre that’s richly available in Similipal Tiger Reserve (STR). They were denied habitat rights inside the STR under the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006.
So they would now be deprived of the non-timber forest produce. This is because the State Forest Department has objected on grounds that tribals could be attacked by wild animals. Had it been approved, the Mankidia would have been the first PVTG to have habitat rights.
In Odisha, processes have been initiated for according habitat rights to PVTGs such as Bondas, Didi, Hill Khadia and Paudi Bhuyan. ‘Habitat’ as defined under the FRA includes the area comprising the customary habitat and other habitats in reserved forests and protected forests of primitive tribal groups and pre-agricultural communities and another forest dwelling STs.
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