Taungyas get legal recognition
Submitted by rummykhan on Wed, 2011-07-27 18:26
LIVING a legally non-existent life for more than six decades, the Taungya forest-dwellers in Gorakhpur and Maharajganj districts of Uttar Pradesh finally got their share of rights on forestland. On July 25, state forest minister Fateh Bahadur Singh distributed land titles to 651 Taungya families in six villages of the two districts under Forest Rights Act (FRA), 2006.
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Jul 27, 2011
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27/07/2011