{"id":139350,"date":"2021-10-05T18:56:47","date_gmt":"2021-10-05T13:26:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=139350"},"modified":"2021-10-12T16:37:12","modified_gmt":"2021-10-12T11:07:12","slug":"govt-moots-changes-to-forest-conservation-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/govt-moots-changes-to-forest-conservation-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt. moots changes to Forest Conservation Act\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
What is the news?<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n

The Union Government has\u00a0proposed\u00a0that\u00a0agencies\u00a0involved in national security\u00a0projects and border infrastructure projects\u00a0will not have to\u00a0obtain prior forest clearance\u00a0from the Centre as part of\u00a0amendments to the existing\u00a0Forest Conservation Act\u00a0(FCA).\u00a0The FCA, which first came in 1980 and was amended in 1988, requires such permission.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

What is the\u00a0draft\u00a0amendment by the\u00a0government?<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n

First<\/b><\/em>,\u00a0to exempt\u00a0land acquired before 1980\u00a0(before the FCA came into\u00a0effect) by\u00a0public sector bodies\u00a0such as the Railways.\u00a0As of today, a landholding\u00a0agency (Rail, NHAI, PWD,\u00a0etc.) is required to take approval under the Act and pay\u00a0stipulated compensatory levies such as Net Present Value (NPV), Compensatory Afforestation (CA), etc. for use\u00a0of such land which was originally been acquired for\u00a0non-forest\u00a0purposes.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Second,<\/b><\/em>\u00a0the Environment Ministry\u00a0also proposes adding a clause\u00a0to make\u00a0offences\u00a0under the\u00a0modified\u00a0Act punishable\u00a0with simple imprisonment\u00a0for a period which may extend to one year and make it\u00a0cognisable\u00a0and non-bailable.\u00a0They also propose provisions\u00a0for penal compensation to\u00a0make good for the damage already done.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Source<\/strong>:\u00a0This post is based on the article\u00a0”\u00a0Govt. moots changes to Forest Conservation Act\u00a0”\u00a0published in The Hindu on 5th October 2021.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What is the news?\u00a0 The Union Government has\u00a0proposed\u00a0that\u00a0agencies\u00a0involved in national security\u00a0projects and border infrastructure projects\u00a0will not have to\u00a0obtain prior forest clearance\u00a0from the Centre as part of\u00a0amendments to the existing\u00a0Forest Conservation Act\u00a0(FCA).\u00a0The FCA, which first came in 1980 and was amended in 1988, requires such permission.\u00a0 What is the\u00a0draft\u00a0amendment by the\u00a0government?\u00a0 First,\u00a0to exempt\u00a0land acquired before 1980\u00a0(before… Continue reading Govt. moots changes to Forest Conservation Act\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10328,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,9],"tags":[235,10187,10188,10185],"class_list":["post-139350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-ecosystem","tag-forest-conservation","tag-forest-conservation-act","tag-forest-scosystem","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1703237102},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10328"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}