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i ii Overall Coordination Shri C Achalender Reddy IFS Director, CIPS ASCI, Hyderabad Coordination Team (CIPS) Mr. KV Subbareddy, Consultant Dr. Sipoy Sarveswar, Project Officer Mr. Ch. NV Ashish, Project Research Associate Ms. Zenia Taluja, Project Research Associate Mr. Mohammed Ahmed, Project Research Associate Ms. Deepa Das, Project Assistant Mr. T. Manish, Project Assistant Coordination Team (TW) Office of Director, Tribal Welfare, Vijayawada Mission Director, TCR & TM, Visakhapatnam Coordination Team (UoH) Mr. Mariakumar Mathangi Mr. Dalibandhu Pukkalla Technical Coordination Shri Vadrevu Ch. Veerabhadrudu Advisor, CIPS © Centre for Innovations in Public Systems, ASCI, Hyderabad Layout Designed & Printed by Samantha Graphics, Vijayawada & Hyderabad iii Contents Acknowledgements vii Editors’ Note viii Unit 1 Community and Natural Resources for Tribals and Their Management 1 Alok Pandey Unit 2 Role of Socio-Cultural Elements of Tribal Life in Forest Conservation 13 T. Appa Rao Unit 3 Indigenous Knowledge of Tribals on Forest Products and Bio-Resources 23 K. Koteswara Rao Unit 4 Forest Policy and Forest Laws 40 K. Anil Kumar Unit 5 Involving Tribals in Forest Management 56 D V Deshpande and Sridhar Bhallamudi Unit 6 Managing Man - Animal Conflict in Tribal Areas 70 T. Appa Rao Unit 7 Biological Diversity Act 2002 82 P. Sravanthi iv About the Unit Authors Alok Pandey is Dr S Radhakrishnan Postdoctoral Fellow (UGC) in Humanities and Social Sciences. He had earlier taught Anthropology (adhoc faculty) at the University of Hyderabad, Telangana. His research interests include ecology, biodiversity conservation, natural resource management, development, nomadism, and pastoralism. He has carried out fieldwork with the nomadic pastoral Van Gujjar in the Himalayas and the pastoral Toda of the Nilgiri hills of South India. He has also worked as Consultant to the National Commission for Denotified, Nomadic and Semi- nomadic Tribes (NCDNT&SNT), Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, Government of India. Apparao Thamminaina (Ph.D., University of Hyderabad) is working as an Assistant Professor (Anthropology) in the National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, Odisha. He had earlier served as an Assistant Professor at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences and as Guest Faculty at the University of Hyderabad. His primary research area is tribal development with a focus on the Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups (PVTGs) of Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, and Odisha. He is a Co-coordinator for the Centre of Tribal Studies (Sponsored by Ministry of Tribal Affairs) at National Institute of Technology, Rourkela. He has completed a few projects on tribal development and NTFP management. He has presented several papers on tribal issues in various conferences and published a few of them. Dr. K. Koteswara Rao is Dr. S. Radhakrishnan Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Department of Anthropology, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, from where he received his M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. degrees. Earlier, he worked as Senior Research Fellow for the High Level Committee on the status of tribal communities of India, Ministry of Tribal Affairs, Government of India; Post doctoral researcher in the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Mohali, Punjab; and Guest Faculty at the University of Hyderabad and Pondicherry University. His research interests include: indigenous knowledge and its management; development-induced displacement, resettlement and rehabilitation; and tribal and rural studies. He has published many research papers in the international journals of repute. Dr. Anil Kumar K is serving as Assistant Professor in the Discipline of Anthropology, School of Social Sciences, Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi. He obtained his M.A. M.Phil. and Ph.D. degrees in Anthropology from University of Hyderabad. His research interests are Culture and Environment, Indigenous Knowledge System, Natural Resource Management, Health & Nutrition, Development-induced Displacement, Resettlement and Rehabilitation, and Tribal Studies. He is the author of two books. He has also published good number of research papers and articles in Journals and edited books. He has actively associated with major and minor research projects and surveys with EPTRI, NIN, FHI, IPPG, UGC, DFID and Jamsetji Tata Trust. Prior to joining IGNOU he had worked as Assistant Professor at the Center for Economic and Social Studies (ICSSR Institute), Hyderabad. Dr. D V Deshpande is Director of Bankers Institute of Rural Development (BIRD) Lucknow. He is a senior executive of NABARD (National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development) with over 30 years’ experience. Before joining BIRD, he headed NABARDs Regional offices in Haryana (Chandigarh) and Bihar (Patna) v Sridhar Bhallamudi is faculty member at Bankers Institute of Rural Development. He obtained degree in B.Sc. (Agri. Engg. & Tech), from OUAT, Bhubaneswar and PGD (Forest Management) from IIFM, Bhopal, He had also completed CAIIB. His area of specialization includes Agri Projects, Agri Value Chain, Agri. Productivity, Financing, Rural Infrastructure, Financing, PO, Climate Change, Forestry and Seed Sector. Sravanthi Pantangi, is a UGC-JRF research scholar pursuing Ph.D. in Social Anthropology from the University of Hyderabad. She had earlier obtained her master’s and M.Phil. Degrees from University of Hyderabad. Her key research interest is in the area of Social institutions and development. vi About the Editors BV Sharma is a Professor in the Department of Anthropology, University of Hyderabad. He has been teaching in the Department of Anthropology since 1992. His research interests are Medical Anthropology, Anthropology of Education and Community participation in Development. His significant academic contribution is by way of research projects awarded to him by International organizations such as W.H.O, F.A.O, World Bank, DFIDI and National organizations such as NABARD, U.G.C and State level organizations such as Sarva Siksha Abhiyan. He participated in several national and international seminars held in Paris, London etc. N. Sudhakar Rao is a senior Professor in the Department of Anthropology, University of Hyderabad. He obtained his Masters Degree in Anthropology from S.V. University, Tirupathi and Ph.D. Degree in Anthropology from Rochester University, USA. He was a Visiting Research Fellow in the Centre for Development Studies, Bergen, Norway. Before joining the University of Hyderabad he had served as Professor and Dean, Social Sciences in Central University, Silchar. Earlier he had served the Commission for S.C and S.T, Government of India and ISRO. His areas of interest include South Asian Social System, Action Anthropology, Communication and Religion. K. Koteswara Rao is a Dr. S. Radhakrishnan Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Department of Anthropology, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, from where he received his M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. degrees. Earlier, he worked as Senior Research Fellow for the High Level Committee on the status of tribal communities of India, Ministry of Tribal Affairs, Government of India; Post doctoral researcher in the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Mohali, Punjab; and Guest Faculty at the University of Hyderabad and Pondicherry University. His research interests include: indigenous knowledge and its management; development-induced displacement, resettlement and rehabilitation; and tribal and rural studies. vii Acknowledgements Production of this source book in just about four months was made possible by the contribution of quality time, ideas, designs, and intellectual creativities of many friends, colleagues and well-wishers. We will be failing in our duty if we do not acknowledge the help and advice from them. We place on record our appreciation and gratefulness to the Department of Tribal Welfare, Government of Andhra Pradesh, especially Sri G Chandrudu, IAS (Director, Tribal Welfare) for this unique initiative and for the continuous support. We owe our gratefulness to the Centre for Innovations in Public Systems (CIPS) and especially to its Director, Sri C. Achalender Reddy, IFS for considering to award this project to us. The contribution of Sri Vadrevu Ch. Veerabhadrudu currently Advisor, CIPS, is immense to this project. He not only provided the motivation but also guided us thoroughout patiently reviewing every unit included in the source book and advised us on the structure, content, expression and many other aspects which helped for meeting the standards that we have set for ourselves for this source book. We feel that his contribution is more than the contribution of ours to this project. We sincerely acknowledge his support in many ways to this project. The authors of the units in the sourcebook made their best attempt to provide the material according to our requirements in a short time and obliging to our request to take this work on priority basis. They showed the patience to review more than two or three times. We are deeply indebted to each one of them. Senior and retired scholars like, Prof. Vijay Prakash, Prof. Buddhadeb Choudhury, Prof. Karma Oran, Prof. K.E. Rajpramukh, Prof. Ram Gambhir and Dr. Francis Kulirani have participated in the workshop conducted for selection of themes for this source book along with Prof. Sunita Rani, Prof. Malli Gandhi, Prof. Ramdas Rupavath, Dr. Nanda Kishore Kannuri, Dr. K. Anil Kumar, Dr. Amit Kumar Kisku, Dr. Annamalai, and Mr. Subba Reddy. Their contribution in the design of this source book is