law: Indian Forest Act, 1927
  28.  Formation
  
  of village-forests . –
  (1) The State Government may assign to any
  
  village-community the rights of Government to or over any land which has been
  
  constituted a reserved forest, and may cancel such assignment. All forests so assigned
  
  shall be called village-forests.
  (2) The State Government may make rules for
  
  regulating the management of village-forests, prescribing the conditions under
  
  which the community to which any such assignment is made may be provided with
  
  timber or other forest-produce or pasture, and their duties for the protection
  
  and improvement of such forest.
  (3) All the provisions of this Act relating to
  
  reserved forests shall (so far as they are not inconsistent with the rules so
  
  made) apply to village-forests.