• Dr. Subhash

Abstract : Politics has always played a destructive and conflicting role with the tribes and forest dwellers not only during the colonial period but also during the post-colonial period in India. Even after more than five decades of Indian planning, deprived groups, and the tribal’s in particulars, continue to remain underdeveloped and underprivileged, with their living conditions deteriorating further. Taking a historical perspective, this article seeks to explore the changing nature of environmental policy-making, with specific attention to natural resource management issues since the late 1980s and analyse the consequences of the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act of 2006 on the environment as well as tribal development. Examining whether this new, politically motivated law will provide on impetus for economic progress of the tribal’s and environmental sustainability, it is argued that this Act will neither benefit the tribal communities nor enhance conservation. In fact, my contention is that developments with regard to different environmental legislations and policies in particular sectors are often contradictory in nature, sending confused signals as to the future of environmental policy itself. My specific focus with regard to social concerns is community rights to resources – a concern that is central to many of the debates on natural resource management. Three arguments are put forth: (1) that while the environment has at one level assumed a nonnegotiable presence in policy, social concerns are only highlighted to the extent that they are deemed not to be environmentally destructive, (2) that the discursive terrain through which social concerns are deemed harmful is overly simplistic and in need of re-examination, and (3) that the changing nature of environmental discourse can only be understood within the wider shifts in development policy. Although there are many who would claim that the environment itself receives an inadequate attention in development policy, a contention that is at least partly true, I am concerned here with how emerging policies and legislations tackle social concerns given the socially constructed nature of the environment. This is ncessarily central to imagining future possibilities linked to managing the environment for the poor instead of only imagining environmental management by the poor.

Key Words : Conference , Destructive, Environmental, Planning ,Resources

"The Changing Nature of Forest Right Acts in Post- Colonial India and The Tribal Development Historical Analysis", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 11, page no.285-295, November-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1811C90.pdf

"The Changing Nature of Forest Right Acts in Post- Colonial India and The Tribal Development Historical Analysis", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 11, page no. pp285-295, November-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1811C90.pdf