Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Are missing palm trees causing more lighting deaths in Bihar appearing in ‘The Times of India’ dated 29.05.2025". The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Are missing palm trees causing …
The auto industry’s sales is expected to grow by about 22 per cent due to the initiative Union Road Transport and Highways minister Nitin Gadkari has asked the Environment, Forest and Climate Change Ministry to share the subsidy burden for replacing commercial vehicles that are older than 15 years by …
DEHRADUN: Long-pending funds to the tune of Rs 1,500 crore would soon be disbursed to Uttarakhand for ramping up the green cover in the state. The funds form part of the Rs 42,000-crore corpus of 'locked funds' (that had been lying unused) which will soon be allocated to various states …
CAMPA doesn’t take away rights under Forest Act With around R40,000 crore lying unspent with the ad hoc body created by a Supreme Court order in 2006 to manage afforestation funds—the idea is to afforest land equal to that where a forest is being cleared for industrial purposes—Parliament clearing of …
A much awaited Bill, meant for unlocking over Rs 42,000 crore fund for compensatory afforestation and wildlife protection, was passed by the Parliament. The Rajya Sabha finally on Thursday approved the Bill after the government assured the Upper House that it would make enough provision in rules to safeguard the …
Jairam Ramesh makes passionate appeal to let Gram Sabha have a say in fund utilization Seeking to include Gram Sabhas in the process of compensatory afforestation, senior Congress leader and former environment minister Jairam Ramesh moved an amendment on the Compensatory Afforestation Fund Management and Planning Authority (CAMPA) Bill in …
The Bill is critical to the disbursement of Rs. 42,000 crore to the States for afforestation The Congress and the BJP reached a compromise on Wednesday, clearing the decks for the passage of the long-pending Compensatory Afforestation Fund (CAF) Bill, which is critical to the disbursement of nearly Rs. 42,000 …
Minister for Forests, Environment and Ecology Choudhary Lal Singh has directed the Divisional Forest Officers of Jammu Division to start a massive plantation drive and set a target of planting about one lakh ornamental and fruit saplings in the forest areas and alongside the roads during the current monsoon season. …
India is considering the possibility of bringing an umbrella legislation on climate change to move ahead towards the ratification of the Paris climate agreement—a legacy that the US President Barack Obama wants to leave before his term draws to an end. The Indo-US Joint statement this month after PM Modi's …
The Union ministry of environment and forest (MoEF) today approved a sum of Rs 196 crore to Maharashtra for various afforestation activities. The decision came after Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar held a meeting with Maharashtra Environment Minister Sudhir Mungantiwar on ad hoc Compensatory Afforestation Fund Management and Planning Authority (CAMPA). …
The Centre today sanctioned more than Rs 300 crore for Rajasthan and Telangana to undertake activities related to afforestation and biodiversity. "The Centre today sanctioned Rs 164 crore for Rajasthan and Rs 156 crore for Telangana, following a meeting on Compensatory Afforestation Fund Management and Planning Authority (CAMPA) with the …
Minister of State for Environment and Forests Prakash Javadekar on Tuesday said the vital accomplishments of his ministry included increase in forest cover, better monitoring of industrial pollution and representation of the country's interest in COP Paris meet. 'We have increased our forest cover by 3,500 square kilometres in the …
Because of developmental or industrial requirements, forests are routinely cut, or, as it is said in official language, “diverted for non-forest purposes”. On the last day of the recently concluded Rajya Sabha session, Prime Minister Narendra Modi told retiring members that they would probably have felt more satisfied had two …
The Lok Sabha on Tuesday unanimously passed the much awaited Compensatory Afforestation Fund (CAF) Bill, 2015 that aims to ensure expeditious utilization of accumulated unspent amounts to the tune of around Rs 40,000 crore for increasing forest cover in India. The amount has been lying idle with an ad-hoc central …
A Bill to provide for the establishment of funds under the public accounts of India and the public accounts of each State and crediting thereto the monies received from the user agencies towards compensatory afforestation, additional compensatory afforestation, penal compensatory afforestation, net present value and all other amounts recovered from …
The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF&CC;) has been entrusted with preserving and improving the forest wealth of the country in the interest of its citizens and national ecological security. The rising demand for forestland for non-forestry purposes, such as mining, hydropower and infrastructure development, has caused MoEF&CC; …
Passed in Parliament, it could unlock Rs 36,000 crore immediately to states Crucial amendments to the Compensatory Afforestation Fund Bill, 2015 were allowed by the union cabinet on Wednesday, which fast tracks the process of releasing funds for increasing forest cover in the country worth Rs 40,000 crore, to the …
Jaipur: A Special Tiger Protection Force (STPF) would now be established for Sariska Tiger Reserve and the Mukundara Hills Tiger Project. So far this was only functional for the Ranthambhore Tiger Project. For these two, new STPF now instead of police force, forest guards and forest watchers would be appointed. …
Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science & Technology, Environment & Forests, present this Two Hundred and Seventy-seventh Report on "The Compensatory Afforestation Fund Bill, 2015". The Bill seeks to provide for the establishment of funds under the public accounts of India and the public accounts of each State and crediting …
The statement was made by Tarun Johri, Conservator of Forests, defending the approvals granted by the forest department to cut full grown “old trees” in the city. In a bizarre explanation for the “need to cut old trees” in the capital, a senior official of the Forest Department informed the …
Efforts made by the State Government in order to publish the 1982 land settlement survey have come as fresh air, at least for certain mining companies. The decision which has drawn some objections as well from different quarters is likely to settle land status issues which are said to be …
