law: Indian Forest Act, 1927
  10.  Treatment
  
  of claims relating to practice of shifting cultivation –
  (1) In the case of a claim relating to the
  
  practice of shifting cultivation, the Forest Settlement-officer shall record a statement
  
  setting forth the particulars of the claim and of any local rule or order under
  
  which the practice is allowed or regulated, and submit the statement to the
  
  State Government, together with his opinion as to whether the practice should
  
  be permitted or prohibited wholly or in part.
  (2) On receipt of the statement and opinion,
  
  the State Government may make an order permitting or prohibiting the practice
  
  wholly or in part.
  (3) If such practice is permitted wholly or in
  
  part, the Forest Settlement-officer may arrange for its exercise -
  a) by altering the limits of the land under settlement so as to
  
  exclude land of sufficient extent, of a suitable kind, and in a locality
  
  reasonably convenient for the purposes of the claimants, or
  b) by causing certain portions of the land under settlement to
  
  be separately demarcated, and giving permission to the claimants to practice
  
  shifting cultivation therein under such conditions as he may prescribe.
  (4) All arrangements made under sub-section
  
  (3) shall be subject to the previous sanction of the State Government.
  (5) The practice of shifting cultivation shall
  
  in all cases be deemed a privilege subject to control, restriction and
  
  abolition by the State Government.