An Act to provide for the conservation of forests and for matters connected therewith or ancillary or incidental thereto. As per its Section 2, this Act provides restrictions on de-reservation of forests or use of forest land for non forest purpose.
As per the provisions of the Section 2 of this Act, the user agency who wants to undertake any construction project on any of the notified forest land has to obtain permission from Central Government and need to provide land equal in area to the land they want to divert for non-forestry purpose. The land is provided for compensatory afforestation which is to be done by the State Forest Department from the funds provided by Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change, Govt. of India under Compensatory Afforestation Fund Management and Planning Authority (CAMPA), Act.
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