India, Aug. 18 -- Around 2.389 million individual forest rights claims and 1.21 lakh community titles have been distributed so far under the Forest Rights Act, 2006, the Union environment ministry (MoEFCC ) informed the Lok Sabha on Monday.

While around 5.123 million claims were filed in total, over 1.86 million individual and 7.49 lakh community claims were rejected since the Act came into effect.

"As per the provisions of 'The Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006' and Rules there under, the state governments are responsible for implementation of various provisions of the Act. The ministry of tribal affairs is the nodal ministry for monitoring the implementation of the Act," Ki...