The Centre for Science, Technology & Society made significant research and policy advocacy progress in 2021-2022, with the support from state government of Maharashtra and funding from national and international agencies. Recently, the District Administration of Chandrapur, Government of Maharashtra has entered into an agreement with the Centre to identify potential areas for livelihood enhancement in hundred community forest recognised villages of Chandrapur District. This is a flagship programme of the ITDP, Chandrapur to create model CFR villages to be adopted by CFR recognised villages in the district. Earlier this year, the Centre worked with State Government of Kerala and State Government of Chhattisgarh to contribute to the planning commission and task force of these states respectively on Forest Rights Act. The Forest Rights and Governance research work is being expanded to cover Himachal Pradesh and Tamil Nadu. The Centre had also organised a series of training and capacity building programmes for government officials, including senior Forest, Revenue, Tribal officers, Gram Sabhas and NGOs working in the field of forest rights and governance. The Centre has been actively involved in conducting evidence-based research on diverse aspects of environmental and forest governance. It has conducted pioneering research in collaboration with ATREE and local knowledge partners in Odisha, Maharashtra, and Jharkhand on the evolving forest governance structures. The research work of the Centre has been published in both peer-reviewed and popular journals.