Other functions include measures for:
- Conferring ownership rights in minor forest produce to STs.
- Safeguarding rights of tribal communities over mineral and water resources.
- Developing tribals and creating more viable livelihood strategies.
- Improving efficacy of relief and rehabilitation for displaced tribal groups.
- Preventing alienation of tribal land and rehabilitating affected people.
- Eliciting maximum cooperation and involvement of tribal communities for forest protection and social afforestation.
- Ensuring full implementation of the PESA Act, 1996.
- Reducing and eliminating shifting cultivation by tribals.