This is what the slp is now saddled with: a ban on projects upstream, the creation of a wildlife sanctuary and compensation obligations. It has deposited Rs 373.65 crore with the sc under the campa -related Compensatory Afforestation Fund (see box: The campa process). The compensation imperative has hit nhpc hard. Even before this injunction, it had already deposited Rs 79 crore with the governments of Assam and ap for compensatory afforestation. ap got about Rs 70 crore for project-related diversion of 3,168 ha of forests, while Assam was given about Rs 9 crore for 571.3 ha. nhpc also had to pay Rs 4.26 crore as penalty for diverting 245 ha of forest land without prior permission in Assam.

Now it has also