WHEN Articles 370 and 35A were abrogated in 2019, most central laws were implemented in the new Union Territory of Jammu & Kashmir (J&K). However, some were not. Among them was the Forest Rights Act (FRA).
It was finally implemented at the end of 2020, after a struggle, which actually began in 2006, when the law was passed by Parliament but could not be introduced in J&K because of the special provisions under which the state was governed.
The law gives forest dwellers rights over their homesteads and minor forest produce and recognizes that they have. . .