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Tribals benefit from forest rights [1]

MIDNAPORE, Nov. 6: After a decade long struggle, the tribals in the state are finally benifitting from their traditional rights to the forest land, from which they had been deprived creating strong resentment among them.

The tribals of Midnapore West are the first to reap the benefits of the

Publication Date: 
07/11/2008
Statesman (Kolkata) [2]
Tags:
Forests [3], Forest Rights Act 2006 [4], Tribals [5], West Bengal [6], Medinipur (D) [7]
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