{"id":32860,"date":"2018-10-29T17:09:47","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T11:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=32860"},"modified":"2018-10-29T17:09:47","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T11:39:47","slug":"rs-40000-cr-forest-fund-in-limbo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/rs-40000-cr-forest-fund-in-limbo\/","title":{"rendered":"Rs 40000 cr forest fund in limbo\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/40000-cr-forest-fund-in-limbo\/article22282070.ece\"><strong>Rs 40000 cr forest fund in limbo<\/strong><\/a><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Context <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>More than a year after the Union government brought in a law to allow the States to access seamlessly nearly \u20b940,000 crore for regenerating forest land lost to industry, it is still to frame rules to get the money disbursed, says a written reply given in the Lok Sabha<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rules still to be framed<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While States are getting money, it continues to be under an \u201cad hoc\u201d mechanism whereby the Centre disburses it on a needs-basis. Rules have not been framed yet<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ironically, a year after the law came into being, disbursal this year has dropped to a three-year low<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>SC\u2019s directions<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court, in a 2009 order, had directed that an independent authority be charged with disbursing these funds, which paved the way for the Compensatory and Afforestation Fund (CAF) Bill envisaging the creation of a permanent Compensatory Afforestation Fund Management and Planning Authority (CAMPA)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Backdrop<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Last July, the Rajya Sabha signed into law the CAMPA Bill that allows the States to access nearly \u20b942,000 crore \u2014 mostly collected from industrial projects as penalties \u2014 from CAMPA and channel it into afforestation projects<\/p>\n<p><strong>How much has been disbursed this year?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The government says only \u20b91,827 crore was disbursed to the States this year as opposed to \u20b92,213 crore and \u20b92,057 crore in the preceding years<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bill passed after a heated debate<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Bill, which establishes the National Compensatory Afforestation Fund and a State Compensatory Afforestation Fund under each State, saw heated debated in Parliament last year.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Minister\u2019s promise: <\/strong>It was finally passed after then Environment Minister, the late Anil Dave, assured the House that all objections raised \u2014 such as the provisions of the Bill vesting greater powers in the forest bureaucracy than on resident tribal people; the possible violation of tribal rights, and gram panchayats not having the final say in deciding what kind of forests could be grown \u2014 would be addressed within the Rules of the Bill<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rs 40000 cr forest fund in limbo\u00a0 Context More than a year after the Union government brought in a law to allow the States to access seamlessly nearly \u20b940,000 crore for regenerating forest land lost to industry, it is still to frame rules to get the money disbursed, says a written reply given in the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/rs-40000-cr-forest-fund-in-limbo\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rs 40000 cr forest fund in limbo\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704775624},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32860","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\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}