Section 12
Power of Central Government to issue directions.
The Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006
About this Act
An Act to recognise and vest the forest rights and occupation in forest land in forest dwelling Scheduled Tribes and other traditional forest dwellers who have been residing in such forests for generations but whose rights could not be recorded; to provide for a framework for recording the forest rights so vested and the nature of evidence required for such recognition and vesting in respect of forest land.
In the performance of its duties and exercise
of its powers by or under this Act, every authority referred to in Chapter IV shall be subject to such
general or special directions, as the Central Government may, from time to time, give in writing.