Do the new Forest Conservation Rules favour private developers? | In Focus podcast
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Forest Conservation Act
Before this act, the state government did not need to take any approval from the sengona. In many ways, it was a tool for the central government to folk saying that we are we will bring in the conservation ethic," says Ravi Agrawal. As well as compensatory mechanisms in place as part of this this law, to say that if you use it for a fors construction of a dam or a mine, an equal amount of land has to be put under forestation mechanism.
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