Forest laws urged
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, December 07 2020:
The Federation of All Tribal Youth Clubs, Manipur has urged the Government to enact forest laws and its rules to protect the land and forest of the hill areas of Manipur as provisioned under Article 371C of the Indian Constitution.
The Federation in a statement said, so far the tribals living in the hill areas of Manipur have no forest Acts and rules to protect their land forest, land which cannot be separated from the tribals as they depend heavily on the forest for their livelihood.
Without proper laws and rules to protect the land and the forests of the hill areas of Manipur, the forest of tribals are dwindling at an alarming rate and a proper law is the need of the hour, added the statement.