Consider the following statements : 1. As per recent amendment to the Indian Forest Act, 1927, forest dwellers have the right to fell the bamboos grown on forest areas. 2. As per the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006, bamboo is a minor forest produce. 3. The Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006 allows ownership of minor forest produce to forest dwellers. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Statements 2 and 3 are correct because the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (FRA) Act, 2006, explicitly classifies bamboo as "minor forest produce" and grants forest dwellers the right of ownership, access to collect, use, and dispose of it. Statement 1 is the primary distractor and is incorrect because the 2017 amendment to the Indian Forest Act, 1927, removed bamboo from the definition of "trees" only for **non-forest areas** to encourage private cultivation; it remains a tree within forest areas where felling is still regulated. The core concept tested is the legal status of bamboo and the specific rights granted to tribal communities under the FRA 2006 versus the regulatory framework of the Indian Forest Act.