State-wise FRA Status upto May, 2025

 Dear Friends,

I hope you have reviewed the state-wise FRA MPR of MoTA up to January 2025. As you know, MoTA's FRA MPR only provides the status of CFR and not CFRR, except for Maharashtra and Odisha, which is very important. The district-wise status of CFRR recognition is only provided by Maharashtra, Odisha, and Chhattisgarh, and the CFRR status of other states and UTs is unknown as they are reported as CFR. I have compiled the CFRR recognition data for Maharashtra, Odisha, and Chhattisgarh and combined the figures. Please review below and note the differences.

STATUS OF CFRR RECOGNITION IN ODISHA, MAHARASHTRA, AND CHHATTISGARH

S. No	States	CFRR Claims	CFRR Titles	Area Recognised in Acres	Average area recognised in Acres	CFRR Claims Rejected	Remarks
1	Odisha	35024	8832	743193.39	84.14	141 as per State Oct, 2024 MPR	MoTA FRA MPR, May, 2025
2	Maharashtra	11259	8668	3371497	388.95	241  per the March 2025	MoTA FRA MPR, May, 2025
3	Chhattisgarh	4469	4396	4784434	1088.36	0	CG Tribal Dept. MPR up to Jan 2025

 

On Thu, Jul 3, 2025 at 1:07 PM Manohar Chauhan <chauhanmanohar@gmail.com> wrote:

Dear Friends,

 

Please find attached the FRA-MPR (State-wise) up to May 2025, duly reported by MoTA. 

 

You can also access the FRA MPRs from the following link;

 

https://tribal.nic.in/downloads/FRA/MPR/2025/(A)%20MPR%20May%202025.pdf

 

As per the May 2025 report, in total, 49,11,495 IFR and 2,11,609 CFR claims have been filed at the gram sabha levels in 21 states, including Jammu and Kashmir. Out of which 23,89,670 IFR and 1,21,705 CFR titles have been recognized over 50,75,083.51 acres against IFR and 181,98863.89 acres of forest land against CFR have been recognized in 21 states. The average forest land recognized under IFR continues to be 2.12 acres.  Chhattisgarh is the leading State in recognizing the IFR with 4,81,432 titles (unchanged from the March 2025 report), followed by Odisha 4,62,067 (4,61,475 in the last March), MP(2,66,901 unchanged), Telangana (2,30,735 unchanged), and AP (2,26,651 unchanged). It is also reported that till May 2025, in total 18,62,056 mostly of IFR claims have been rejected in the 21 states.

 

Interestingly, the May 2025 report shows an increase of 9397 IFR claims, 2603 CFR claims, 836 IFR titles, and only 77 CFR titles in the 21 States from the last March 2025 MPR.

 

Likewise, Odisha continues to be the leading state in recognizing CFR/CFRR titles with 8832 (an increase of 56 CFR titles from last March 2025), followed by Maharashtra with 8668 titles (unchanged), which is constant from last Nov 2024 MPR. But there is an increase of 2570 rejected Claims from the last March 2025 report.

 

As shared earlier, in many states, the reported forest land recognized under CFR/CFRR has been shown on the higher side, which is wrong. While the forest land recognized under CFR and CFRR is the same, many states calculate the forest land recognized under CFR and CFRR separately and then add them to the total areas reported. And the same data is being reproduced by MoTA in the MPR without cross-checking. Despite clear reporting by many states to MoTA on CFRR, there is no clear report on the total CFRR being recognised in the 21 states by MoTA, which is a crucial one. Since there is no information on the actual CFRR titles issued in MP, Telangana, Gujarat, Rajasthan, AP, Assam, Jharkhand, Karnataka, and Tamil Nadu etc., the data on the CFR is unclear. Besides, while no CFR claims over forest land can be rejected, many states continue to report rejection of CFR/CFRR claims in their FRA MPR.  

 

Regards,

Manohar