OBJECTION OVERRULED; FOREST BILL GOES TO HOUSE UNCHANGED. Flashcards
Forest
(Conservaton) Act,
1980
. A 31-member joint
commitee on the Forest (Conservaton) Amendment Bill, 2023, chaired by ……. was set up and the bill is expected to be tabled in Parliament ahead of the monsoon
session on July 20.
BJP MP Rajendra aggrawal
The Act empowers the
Centre to require that any forest land diverted for non-forestry purposes be duly
compensated.
India’s total forest cover rose to
………………. from 2001 to 2021
38,251 sq. km
The bill proposal to change the name of the 1980 law from the Forest (Conservaton) Act to
………………….., which literally translates to Forest
(Conservaton and Augmentaton) Act
Van (Sanrakshan Evam Samvardhan) Adhiniyam
‘Diluton’ of the Supreme Court’s 1996 judgment in the Godavarman case that extended
protecton to wide tracts of forests, even if they were not recorded as forests.
The word ‘forest’ is not defned in any Central Forest Act, namely the Indian Forest Act
(1927), or the Forest Conservaton Act (1980).
……………is home to the largest area of forest – 815 million hectares
russia
The largest patch of forest in the world is the …….
the Amazon rain forest
……………………..also called the Monsoon forests occupies highest percentage
of area in India.
Tropical Deciduous Forests,
Forests are included in the………………in the (Seventh Schedule) of the Constitution
of India.
cconcurrent list
: Policies Governing India’s Forests
*Indian Forest Policy, 1952
*Forest Conservaton Act, 1980
*Natonal Forest Policy, 1988
*Natonal Aforestaton Programme
*Wildlife Protecton Act of 1972
*Environment Protecton Act of 1986
*Biodiversity Diversity Act of 2002
*Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditonal Forest Dwellers
(Recogniton of Forest Rights) Act, 2006
*India is home to…….. of the
world’s forest cover
2 %
largest patch of forest in india
Sundarbans mangrove forest
………………… is the premier
research insttute in India for forestry and allied sciences.
Forest Research Insttute in Dehradun
The Indian government has set a target of increasing the
forest cover to ……….. of the country’s land area by 2030
33 %
*India also ranks ………..globally in average annual net forest
area gains in the last decade
third
Undemarcated Protected Forests are
also called the …………..
orange area
aboliton of the zamindari system in……
1951
Total Forest and Tree cover is …… of the geographical area of the country
24.62 %
The Total Forest cover is 7,13,789 sq km which is 21.71% of the geographical area of
the country.
The Tree cover is 2.91% of the geographical area of the country
The top fve states in terms of increase in forest cover:
o Andhra Pradesh>Telangana>Odisha>Karnataka>Jharkhand.
Largest forest cover in India:
: Madhya Pradesh > Arunachal Pradesh > Chhatsgarh > Odisha
> Maharashtra
The states from the North eastern region of the country have the highest percentage of
forest cover w.r.t. total geographical area of the state.
.
o Mizoram (84.53%) > Arunachal Pradesh (79.33%) > Meghalaya (76.00%) > Manipur
(74.34%) > Nagaland (73.90%).
States showing loss in forest cover:
Arunachal Pradesh > Manipur > Nagaland > Mizoram >
Meghalaya.
There has been a net increase of 1,540 sq km in the Forest Cover at the natonal level
Natonal Forest Policy,
1988
The Ministry of Environment is implementng three major schemes for forest
development:
the Natonal Aforestaton Programme (NAP), the Natonal Mission
for a Green India (GIM), and the Forest Fire Preventon and Management
Scheme (FFPM)
*Natonal Mission for a Green
India (GIM) is one of the eight Missions under
the Natonal Acton Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC).
*GIM was launched in the year ………… as a Centrally
Sponsored Scheme.
2004
