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Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding maintenance of green cover along highways, 13/04/2018

Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Sushil Raaja Vs Secretary, MORTH (Ministry of Road Transport and Highways) & Others dated 13/04/2018 regarding maintenance of green cover along highways. The States were asked to furnish the following information:

a. Stretch of roads in different areas in the State where trees have been felled and the areas identified for compensatory afforestation.

b. The number of trees proposed to be felled.

MOEF has submitted that the requisite information has not been given by :

Judgement Date: 
13/04/2018
Tags:
Highways, Compensatory Afforestation, Deforestation, National Green Tribunal (NGT), Court, India, National Highways Authority of India (NHAI)
Forests

70% afforestation projects taken up in forests, gram sabha consent ignored: Study

NEW DELHI: A new study on more than 2000 compensatory afforestation plantations across the country found that in 70% of the projects plantations have been taken up on notified forest land but terme

Publication Date: 
19/03/2018
Times Of India (New Delhi)
Tags:
Compensatory Afforestation, Gram Sabhas, Trees, Chhattisgarh, Tribals, Forest Act 1980, Forests
Forests

Gram sabha definition in draft CAF rules could deprive some forest dwellers of consultation: MoTA

The ministry of tribal affairs (MoTA) has raised a number of concerns with the draft rules for implementation of the compensatory afforestation fund (CAF) Act, notified by the union environment min

Publication Date: 
27/02/2018
Times Of India (New Delhi)
Tags:
Compensatory Afforestation, Gram Sabhas, Tribals, Forest Conservation, Wildlife, Forests
Forests

Environment Ministry notifies draft rules of Compensatory Afforestation Act

The remaining 20 per cent of NPV will be utilised for strengthening the forest and wildlife-related infrastructure, capacity building of personnel of state forest departments and other associated a

Publication Date: 
19/02/2018
Indian Express (New Delhi)
Tags:
Compensatory Afforestation, Wildlife, Crop Pests, Forest Conservation, Forests
Forests

Question raised in Rajya Sabha on Compensatory afforestation on forest land, 18/12/2017

Question raised in Rajya Sabha on Compensatory afforestation on forest land, 18/12/2017. Compensatory afforestation has been done on 8.13 lakh hectare (Non forest land- 3.27 lakh ha. and Degraded forest land- 4.86 lakh ha.) from the Compensatory Afforestation Fund. Fund released to different States/Union Territories upto 30.11.2017 from Compensatory Afforestation Fund managed by Ad-hoc CAMPA is placed at Annexure-A.

Publication Date: 
Monday, December 18, 2017
Rajya Sabha
Tags:
Compensatory Afforestation, Finance, India, Statistics, Parliament
Forests

Judgement of the National Green Tribunal regarding rate of Net Present Value to be paid by Mangalam Cement, Kota, Rajasthan, 07/11/2017

Judgement of the National Green Tribunal (Central Zonal Bench, Bhopal) in the matter of Mangalam Cement Limited Vs State of Rajasthan & Others dated 07/11/2017 regarding rate of Net Present Value (NPV) by Mangalam Cement Limited, Kota, Rajasthan. Mangalam Cement contention is that the forest land in question is degraded having density of less than of 0.01, the NPV should have been charged at the minimum rate of Rs. 5.80 lakhs per hectare and not at the rate of Rs. 9.0 hectares.

Judgement Date: 
07/11/2017
Tags:
Net Present Value (NPV), Cement Industry, Mining, Kota (D), National Green Tribunal (NGT), High Court, Rajasthan, Compensatory Afforestation
Forests

Compensatory Afforestation

Compensatory afforestation is a dubious and controversial environmental “offset” that is adding to environmental damage instead of mitigating or compensating it. Compensatory afforestation may actually be accelerating the invasion of India’s forests by big corporations, in collusion with a permissive state, by legitimising the destruction of forests, greenwashing the land grabs, and encroaching on common property resources and community-held lands.

Publication Date: 
23/09/2017
Soumitra Ghosh
Economic and Political Weekly
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38
67-75
Tags:
Deforestation, Land Use, Multinational Corporations (MNCs), Mining, Dams, Compensatory Afforestation, Polavaram, Lower Subansiri, Durgapur, Sikkim, Arunachal, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Forest Clearance, Environment Clearance (EC)
Forests

1.45 lakh trees axed in 8 months, Punjab forest deptt tells NGT

Bathinda: The Punjab forest and wildlife department claims to have planted 7.87 lakh saplings under the compensatory afforestation scheme during the ongoing fiscal year so far.

Publication Date: 
18/08/2017
Times of India (Chandigarh)
Tags:
Punjab, Compensatory Afforestation, National Green Trbunal (NGT), Trees, Forests
Forests

Guidelines for conducting Cost Benefit Analysis for projects involving diversion of forest land under the provisions of the Forest (Conservation) Act, 1980

The economic viability of any development project that involves diversion of forest land may now reduce with the environment ministry coming up with new cost benefit analysis guidelines.

Publication Date: 
01/08/2017
Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change
Tags:
Forests, Forest Conservation, Cost Benefit Analysis, Ecosystem Services, Compensatory Afforestation
Forests

Draft Compensatory Afforestation Fund Rules, 2017

The ministry of environment, forests and climate change (MoEFCC) has come up with draft rules to implement the Compensatory Afforestation Fund (CAF) Act 2016. The draft has stirred up a controversy with civil societies alleging that stakeholders have not been consulted while in the process.

Publication Date: 
24/04/2017
Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change
Tags:
Compensatory Afforestation, Compensatory Afforestation Fund Management And Planning Authority (CAMPA), India, Afforestation

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