This act provides conservation of forests and related aspects. This act also covers all type of forests including reserved forests, protected forests and any forested land. This Act is enacted in 1980. It aims at to arrest deforestation.
Objectives of forest Act :
i) To protect and conserve the forest.
ii) To ensure Judicious use of the forest products.
Important Features of forest Act :
i) The Reserved forests shall not be diverted or dereserved without the prior permission of the central government.
ii) The land that has been notified or registered or forest land may not be used for non-forest purposes.
iii) Any illegal non-forest activity within a forest area can be immediately stopped under act.
Important Features of Amendment act of 1988 :
i) Forest departments are forbidden to assign any forest land 'by way of lease or otherwise to any private person" or non-government body for re-afforestation.
ii) clearance of any forest land of naturally grown trees for the purpose of afforestation is forbidden.
iii) The diversion of forest land for non-forest uses is cognizable offence and any one who violates the law is punishable.
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