 bill no 120 of 2009 the scheduled tribes and other traditional forest dwellers (recognition of forest rights) amendment bill, 2009 by shri  hansraj  gangaram  ahir, mp a billto amend the scheduled tribes and other traditional forest dwellers(recognition of forest rights) act, 2006be  it enacted by parliament in the sixtieth year of the republic of india as follows:—2 of 2007amendment of section 22 in section 2 of the scheduled tribes and other traditional forest dwellers(recognition of forest rights) act, 2006, for clause (o) and explanation thereto, the following clause shall be substituted, namely:—5'(o) "other traditional forest dweller" means any member or community who has primarily resided in and who has engaged in agriculture on the forest land or who depend on the forests or forest land for bona fide livelihood needs' statement  of  objects  and  reasonsthe scheduled tribes and other traditional forest dwellers (recognition of forest rights) act, 2006 was enacted with the purpose of recognising the rights of the scheduled tribes and other traditional forest dwellers residing in forests for generations by conferring on them the rights to use the forest land for their bona fide livelihood needs however, the condition of domicile for residing in forest area for three generations as given in the definition of the other traditional forest dweller in the act is resulting in severe sufferings to the farmers since these traditional forest dwellers are mostly illiterate persons, they don't have any proof to support the fact that they are dwelling in forest land for three generations being a forest region, the land records are also not available in view of the difficulties being faced by them in furnishing documents/records of their domicile for three generations and the consequent deprivation of benefits arising out of the act, there is a need to repeal the condition of domicile of three generationsit is necessary to do away with the condition of three generations as mentioned in  the scheduled tribes and other traditional forest dwellers (recognition of forest rights) act, 2006 and to amend the definition of other traditional forest dweller in the act to enable the traditional forest dwellers to derive the desired benefits from the actthe bill seeks to achieve above objective annexure extract from the scheduled tribes and other traditional forest dwellers (recognition of forest rights) act, 2006 (act no 2 of 2007) chapter i preliminarydefinitions2 in this act, unless the context otherwise requires,—(a)      (o) "other traditional forest dweller" means any member or community who has for at least three generations prior to the 13th day of december, 2005 primarily resided in and who depend on the forest or forests land for bona fide livelihood needsexplanation—for the purpose of this clause, "generation" means a period comprising of twenty-five years; ———— a bill to amend the scheduled tribes and other traditional forest dwellers(recognition of forest rights) act, 2006————(shri hansraj gangaram ahir, mp)