ABSTRACT
This chapter analyses India’s land and forest policies in the 21st century: Fair Compensation of Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation, and Resettlement Act 2013, and the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act 2006, which pose a great threat to ecology and the environment. The former has a direct effect on the environment, and the latter indirectly harms the environment. This chapter attempts to analyse the political economy of land and forest policies of the 21st century and how these acts are going to cast a shadow and threaten ecology and the environment.
