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Mizoram
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Manipur
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Nagaland
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Chhattisgarh
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Detailed explanation-1: -As per recent amendment to the Indian Forest Act, 1927, forest dwellers have the right to fell the bamboos grown on forest areas. As per the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006, bamboo is a minor forest produce.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Indian Forest (Amendment) Ordinance, 2017 was promulgated on November 23, 2017. It amends the Indian Forest Act, 1927. Under the Act, the definition of tree includes palms, bamboos, stumps, brush-wood and canes. The Ordinance amends this definition to remove the word bamboos.
Detailed explanation-3: -The British government was empowered to declare any land covered with trees as a government forest and make rules to manage it according to the act of 1865. It was amended twice in the year 1878 and 1927 after it was passed in 1865.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Indian Forest Act of 1865 was amended two times in the years.