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Members of assorted tribal groups successful Hunsur person flagged ‘’lapses’’ successful implementation of the provisions of the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers Act, 2006, oregon the Forest Rights Act, successful the territory and urged the Centre to rectify the anomalies.
A memorandum was submitted to the Ministry of Tribal Affairs (MoTA), Government of India, connected December 11, 2025, by Development done Education (DEED), an NGO spearheading the origin of tribals successful Hunsur, and different assemblage leaders successful this regard.
S. Sreekanth of DEED said that determination was a debased complaint of acceptance of claims submitted by the tribals with respect to wood rights, not lone successful Mysuru territory but different regions with important tribal population.
As per the memorandum submitted to the Government of India, Karnataka has 9 tribal districts successful the Western Ghats region, including Mysuru, Kodagu, Chamarajanagar, Ramanagar, parts of Hassan and Mandya, Dakshina Kannada, Udupi and Uttara Kannada and are location to respective forest-dwelling communities oregon adivasis.
11 adivasi communities
They see Jenukuruba, Bettakuruba, Iruliga, Soliga, Paniya, Malekudia, Koraga, Yarava, Hasalaru, Siddi and Gowdu, among which Jenukuruba and Koraga are categorised arsenic Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups (PVTGs), according to the memorandum.
It pointed retired that successful Mysuru territory alone, 12,600 tribal families unrecorded successful 219 tribal villages, of which 168 are PVTG Jenukuruba villages.
But of these, lone 7,249 families person filed Individual Forest Rights (IFR) claims nether FRA of which 5,451 claims oregon applications person been rejected, said Mr. Sreekanth, portion the claims of different applicants was pending.
The memorandum stated that lone 722 IFR titles person been issued, covering conscionable 553 acres, which it termed arsenic “pathetic” erstwhile compared against the existent entitlement of 10 acres per household nether FRA.
Though determination are 219 tribal villages, lone 117 person filed for Community Forest Rights (CFR) claims of which CFR with respect to lone 38 villages— successful Periyapatna and H.D. Kote—have been recognised truthful far, according to DEED.
The section leaders said that though Mysuru territory has 168 PVTG villages, the situation rights designation process had not been initiated astatine all. Though representations were sent to the Ministry of Tribal Affairs seeking guidelines and procedures to recognise situation rights for PVTGs, it was yet to enactment connected it, said the assemblage leaders.
‘Total negligence’
The memorandum pointed retired that the Karnataka High Court had, connected April 3, 2009, ordered rehabilitation of 3,418 displaced tribal families from Nagarahole National Park, and that the Assadi Committee study made 34 recommendations (W.P. No. 14379/1999). It alleges “total negligence” by the State successful implementing these directions.
DEED said successful the memorandum that 1,500 tribal villages crossed the 9 districts, comprising astir 90,000 families and six lakh people, proceed to endure without designation of wood rights, pointing retired that forests without tribals was besides not harmless for wildlife.
