Members of varied tribal teams in Hunsur have flagged ”lapses” in implementation of the provisions of the Scheduled Tribes and Different Conventional Forest Dwellers Act, 2006, or the Forest Rights Act, within the district and urged the Middle to rectify the anomalies.
A memorandum was submitted to the Ministry of Tribal Affairs (MoTA), Authorities of India, on December 11, 2025, by Growth by Training (DEED), an NGO spearheading the reason for tribals in Hunsur, and different group leaders on this regard.
S. Sreekanth of DEED stated that there was a low charge of acceptance of claims submitted by the tribals with respect to forest rights, not solely in Mysuru district however different areas with vital tribal inhabitants.
As per the memorandum submitted to the Authorities of India, Karnataka has 9 tribal districts within the Western Ghats area, together with Mysuru, Kodagu, Chamarajanagar, Ramanagar, components of Hassan and Mandya, Dakshina Kannada, Udupi and Uttara Kannada and are dwelling to a number of forest-dwelling communities or adivasis.
11 adivasi communities
They embody Jenukuruba, Bettakuruba, Iruliga, Soliga, Paniya, Malekudia, Koraga, Yarava, Hasalaru, Siddi and Gowdu, amongst which Jenukuruba and Koraga are categorized as Notably Weak Tribal Teams (PVTGs), in line with the memorandum.
It identified that in Mysuru district alone, 12,600 tribal households stay in 219 tribal villages, of which 168 are PVTG Jenukuruba villages.
However of those, solely 7,249 households have filed Particular person Forest Rights (IFR) claims below FRA of which 5,451 claims or functions have been rejected, stated Mr. Sreekanth, whereas the claims of different candidates had been pending.
The memorandum said that solely 722 IFR titles have been issued, protecting simply 553 acres, which it termed as “pathetic” in comparison towards the precise entitlement of 10 acres per household below FRA.
Although there are 219 tribal villages, solely 117 have filed for Neighborhood Forest Rights (CFR) claims of which CFR with respect to solely 38 villages—in Periyapatna and HD Kote—have been acknowledged up to now, in line with DEED.
The native leaders stated that though Mysuru district has 168 PVTG villages, the habitat rights recognition course of had not been initiated in any respect. Although representations had been despatched to the Ministry of Tribal Affairs looking for pointers and procedures to acknowledge habitat rights for PVTGs, it was but to behave on it, stated the group leaders.
‘Whole negligence’
The memorandum identified that the Karnataka Excessive Court docket had, on April 3, 2009, ordered rehabilitation of three,418 displaced tribal households from Nagarahole Nationwide Park, and that the Assadi Committee report made 34 suggestions (WP No. 14379/1999). It alleges “whole negligence” by the State in implementing these instructions.
DEED stated within the memorandum that 1,500 tribal villages throughout the 9 districts, comprising almost 90,000 households and 6 lakh individuals, proceed to endure with out recognition of forest rights, stating that forests with out tribals was additionally not secure for wildlife.
Revealed – December 12, 2025 05:51 pm IST