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States asked to map forest areas, create atlas for faster FRA implementation: Centre
The Centre has asked state governments to map potential forest areas and create an atlas to help speed up the processing of pending claims under the Forest Rights Act (FRA) and find gaps in ...
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Mapping the Future: States Embark on Forest Rights Atlas Initiative
The Indian government urges state authorities to develop forest area maps and create an FRA Atlas to expedite pending claims ...
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How dense is India's forest cover, really? To critics, new data hides more than tells
The Forest Survey of India's 18th biennial India State of Forest Report (ISFR) 2023, released on December 21, says 21.76 per cent of the country's landmass is made up of forests, an alarming ...
After SC prod, Haryana to set up expert panel to map forest-like areas
Gurgaon: Haryana govt has said it will set up a state-level expert committee by April 3 to compile a consolidated record of ...
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India lost more than a million hectares of forest cover in 17 years — that’s more than four times the size of Goa
India has lost over 1.6 million hectares of forests in the last 17 years. The total forest cover loss has caused nearly 172 metric tons of carbon emission in India. The north-eastern states of ...
States asked to map forests, create atlas for FRA implementation: Centre
The minister also informed that a total of 25,03,453 titles have been distributed so far since the implementation of the FRA ...