In the last three decades, 12 lakh ha of forests have been diverted for other purposes, including for regularising encroachments, irrigation, power and mining projects. Most diversion proposals get approved because the forest bureaucracy is complicit in promoting them and uses every underhand means to do so. A system designed to protect forests has thus become a major mechanism for their destruction. And the Ministry of Environment and Forests is reluctant to deal with these systemic flaws.
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Links:
[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/feature-article/projects-and-forests-flawed-clearances-and-complicit-foresters
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/journal/economic-and-political-weekly
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/forests
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/cse-study
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/ministry-environment-and-forests-moef
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/forest-rights-act-2006
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/environment-act-1986
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/public-hearing
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/forest-conservation
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/forest-policy
[11] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/industry
[12] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/forest-encroachments
[13] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/land-use
[14] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/india
[15] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/land-acquisition
