Compensatory Afforestation Rule of India

The showpiece effort for extending India’s forest cover has been its compensatory afforestation programme that seeks to ensure that forest lands getting ‘diverted’ for non-forest purposes, like industrial or infrastructure development, is mandatorily accompanied by afforestation effort on at least an equal area of land. #CompensatoryAfforestation #ForestCover #Environment #environmentnews #ClimateChange #ClimatePolicyIndia #Afforestation #GreenCoverIndia #deforestation #GroundReport