Indian Forest Act, 1927
28. Formation
of village-forests . –
(1) The State Government may assign to any
village-community the rights of Government to or over any land which has been
constituted a reserved forest, and may cancel such assignment. All forests so assigned
shall be called village-forests.
(2) The State Government may make rules for
regulating the management of village-forests, prescribing the conditions under
which the community to which any such assignment is made may be provided with
timber or other forest-produce or pasture, and their duties for the protection
and improvement of such forest.
(3) All the provisions of this Act relating to
reserved forests shall (so far as they are not inconsistent with the rules so
made) apply to village-forests.