Consider the following statements regarding The Forest Rights Act (FRA):
1. The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change was mandated to operationalise the Act and the conservation.
2. The FRA empowers forest-dwelling communities to protect, regenerate, conserve and manage any community forest resource which they have been traditionally protecting and preserving for sustainable use.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
1
1 only
2
2 only
3
Both 1 and 2
4
Neither 1 nor 2