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• The issue of the rights of Indigenous people is a global one. Throughout the world, indigenous are claiming their rights to land and livelihoods which have been taken from them.                                                                                                                                                                                      

• In India, the indigenous people (Adivasis) remain disenfranchised and marginalised, most adivasis were traditionally hunter and gatherers, making a living from the forest. In 1947 in a bid to integrate adivasis into main stream society, the Indian Government encouraged them to leave the forest and settle in villages, once in villages the adivasis found their denied access to the forest they saw as theirs, by Forest department officials whose job it was to protect the forest, with their traditional lively - wood denied them, the adivasis were forced to undertake insecure and badly paid laboring work to survive and as traditional way of living most of them are still living in the deep jungle in little bamboo houses.                                                                                                                                                                                                                            

• The Indian Government policy towards adivasis is now changing. There is ongoing debate in the country about the rights of indiginous people. A considerable body of opinion is pressing for greater involvement of adivasis in forest management. The adivasis who have lived for generations in harmony with the forest, may be the best people to ensure that it is sustainable forest practices. But all these people are living in the small huts in deep jungle hamlets.