CAMPA bill timeline

2000: Discussion on valuation of forests reached the Supreme Court through an Interlocutory Application in the ongoing forest case of 1995

March 2002: MoEF developed a scheme for compensatory afforestation; CEC suggested recovering NPV
April 2004: CAMPA notified

September 2005: Supreme Court ordered the constitution of an Expert Committee to frame guidelines for NPV calculation
May 5, 2006: Supreme Court directed constitution of an ad hoc CAMPA

May 05, 2008: The Compensatory Afforestation Fund Bill, 2008, introduced in the Lok Sabha