The Forest (Conservation) Amendment Bill 2023: A need of the hour

Research Fellow, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, Mr Arvind Khare’s article ‘The Forest (Conservation) Amendment Bill 2023: A need of the hour’ has been published in the Financial Express on 05 April 2023.

The bill constitutes an institutionalized mechanism for diversion of reserved forests, use of forest land for non-forest purposes, assigning of forest land by way of lease for non-forest activities, clearing of naturally grown trees for the purpose of regeneration &re-afforestation, etc, says Mr Khare.

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