Governor sends back Forest Bill

  • 26/12/2003

  • Hindu (New Delhi)

The Governor, Sikander Bakht, is understood to have sent back to the State Government the Bill for the takeover of ecologically fragile lands, passed by the Assembly on August 7, this year (2003), as he found it inconsistent with the Central conservation laws. He has asked the Government to send it to the President for his assent. The main complaint against the Bill, titled the