79 Central Region • Forest Land • Infrastructure (35%) • Mining (22%) • Industry (21%) • Forest Rights violations (poor implementation of FRA) • loss of livelihood Community and Government Northeastern Region 24 • Forest Land (46%) • Non-Forest Common Land (43%) • Infrastructure • Industry • displacement of tribes • physical violence Community and Government (92%) Southern Region 74 • Private Land (40%) • Non-Forest Common Land (39%) • Infrastructure (51%) • Power (13%) • Industry (11%) • displacement of tribal community • poor implementation of Land Reform Act • psychological harm • Community and Government (64%) • Community and Business (24%) Source: Data collected from Land Conflict Watch At least 397 cases of land conflict were analyzed. The most number of cases gathered was from the Eastern Region (116 cases), followed by the Northern Region (93), Western Region (90), Southern Region (70), and Northeastern Region (24)3. In four of the six regions, a majority of the land disputes involve forest lands, thus affecting tribal groups or indigenous peoples. The number of cases involving forest lands range from 46 percent (Northeastern Region) to 58 percent (Eastern Region). Non-forest common lands also comprise a significant percentage of the disputed lands, ranging from 15 percent (Eastern Region) to 43 percent of the cases analyzed (Northeastern Region). For the Western and Southern Regions, private lands or farmlands comprise many of the disputed areas, with farmers as the aggrieved party. In the land conflict cases analyzed for this study, the government is considered as the primary party in the dispute, together with the aggrieved communities and individuals. In some cases, the government seems to act in behalf of the private/business sector. As can be seen in Table 1 above, many of the conflicts involved the set-up of infrastructure projects over the disputed lands. In the Eastern and Southern regions, power projects (power plants, dams, etc.) also account for a significant percentage of land disputes. In the Western Region, however, industrial projects and the construction of roads in private lands constituted the majority of the land conflict cases. 3 No data on the number of cases was provided for Central Region. India Land Conflict Monitoring Report No data