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UPSC 2013: Under the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006, who shall be the authority to initiate the process for determining the nature and extent of individual or community forest rights or both?
(a)State Forest Department
(b)District Collector/Deputy Commissioner
(c)Tahsildar/Block Development Officer/Mandal Revenue Officer
(d)Gram Sabha
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Section 6 of the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006 vests the Gram Sabha with the authority to initiate the process of determining the nature and extent of individual and community forest rights; other bodies only scrutinise or approve its recommendations. Therefore option (d) is correct, while the Forest Department, Collector and Tahsildar have no initiating power under the Act. ([mrunal.org](https://mrunal.org/2013/05/answerkey-csat-2013-gs-polity-questions-solved-with-explanation-reference-all-four-sets.html/comment-page-2?utm_source=openai))
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This question was asked in UPSC CSE Prelims 2013, GS Paper 1, as Question 26. It falls under Indian Polity > Social Justice & Vulnerable Sections.
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