Geopolitics
The Hollow Promise: India's Forest Rights Act and the Systemic Betrayal of Indigenous Communities
The Indian government's 2025 'Pradhan Mantri Janjatiya Unnat Gram Abhiyan' campaign attempts to saturate forest rights for Indigenous communities, yet this very initiative exposes systemic institutional failures in implementing the Forest Rights Act. This represents yet another heartbreaking betrayal of India's most vulnerable populations by the very systems meant to protect them, continuing a legacy of colonial-era dispossession under the guise of progress.
