July 25, 2024
Saket Gokhale’s supplementary question during Question Hour on the reasons for the loss of half-a-million hectares of forest cover in the last 10 years despite the Green India Mission
Mr. Chairman, Sir, in the last ten years, India has lost over half-a-million hectares of forest land. Also, last year, the Government passed amendments to the Forest Conservation Act which made it easy for mining projects and other projects to take over forest land, which was later stayed by the Supreme Court of India. So, my question is this. If the Green India Mission is for encouraging aforestation, why have we seen a loss of over half-a-million hectares of forest land in the last ten years, despite this mission running?
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