Rao, Ananya and Majumdar, Ananya and Sridhar, Aarthi (2009) The Traditional marine and coastal fisherfolk (Recognition of Rights) bill 2009: A critique. Dakshin.
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The traditional marine and coastal fisherfolk (Recognition of Rights) Bill 2009 was the first of its kind legislative framework that attempted to recognize the rights of fishing communities to their coastal and ocean commons. The demand for a separate legal provision that identifies and recognizes the rights of fishing communities to their coastal commons was strengthened by the passing of the Scheduled Tribes and Other traditional forest dweller’s (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act (hereafter Forest Rights Act or FRA). The Swaminathan committee report “Final Frontier” of July 2009, recommended that a legislative provision similar to the forest rights act be designed for recognizing the rights of fishing communities to coastal spaces. On the heels of the anti-Coastal Management Zone campaign, and with the support of then Minister of the MoEF, Jayaram Ramesh , a draft bill of the ‘Traditional Marine and Coastal Fisherfolk (Recognition of Rights)’ was released in 2009. The bill also provided for establishing public facilities and utilities such as schools, anganwadis, hospitals/dispensaries, water tanks, drinking water supply pipelines, fish auction and curing halls, net mending yards, boat repair facilities, crematoria and burial grounds for fishers, roads and community centres. Additionally, it instructed state governments to expand and strengthen functions of various fisheries departments and agencies to provide post-harvest technologies such as cold storage plants, cold transport chains, processing units, cleaning facilities etc. By providing these amenities in a fishing village, this Bill recognised developmental rights of fishing communities (similar to how the Forest Rights Act’s provisions for forest dependent communities and their livelihood activities) and advocated for enhanced standards of living, access to markets and self-sufficiency by providing necessary public utilities and localised post-harvest infrastructure
| Item Type: | Documents |
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| Keywords: | Traditional marine, Coastal Fisherfolk, Livelihood, Critique, |
| Subjects: | Right to Resources |
| Depositing User: | Kokila ICSF Krish |
| Date Deposited: | 04 Oct 2024 04:22 |
| Last Modified: | 04 Oct 2024 04:22 |
| URI: | http://icsfarchives.net/id/eprint/20514 |
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