- The MoEFCC recently notified Forest (conservation) Rules 2022, under Forest (conservation) Act, 1980.
- An advisory committee, a screening committee at State or UT and a regional empowered committee will be constituted for monitoring purposes.
- Integrated Regional Office will be set up to examine all the linear projects (Highways and roads) on land up to 40 hectares and those projects using forest land up to 0.7 canopy density.
- These rules provide for a fixed time for reviewing each project quickly.
- States are going to be responsible for settling forest rights of forest dwellers, under the Forest Rights Act, 2006. They will also allow diversion of forest land.
- Compensatory afforestation (CA) will now be allowed in other states. If state has more than two-thirds area under green cover or more than one-third area under forest cover, then CA would be allowed to be taken in other states/UTs where this cover is below 20%
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