Indian Updates: REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE HEADED BY SHRI A.K. BANSAL ADDL. DIRECTOR GENERAL (FC) ON THE REGULATORY REGIME REGARDING FELLING AND TRANSIT REGULATIONS FOR TREE SPECIES GROWN ON NON FORESTS/ PRIVATE LANDS

MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT & FORESTS, 

GOVERNEMENT OF INDIA

REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE

HEADED BY SHRI A.K. BANSAL

ADDL. DIRECTOR GENERAL (FC)

ON 

THE REGULATORY REGIME 

REGARDING FELLING AND TRANSIT 

REGULATIONS FOR TREE SPECIES 

GROWN ON NON FORESTS/ PRIVATE 

LANDS

F. No.8-14/2004-FP

Government of India

Ministry of Environment & Forests

Forest Policy Division

Paryavaran Bhawan,

CGO complex,

Lodhi Road,

New Delhi-110003

Dated: 27th December 2012

To

All The State Forest Departments and other Concerned Persons

Sub: Report of the Committee constituted to study the regulatory regime regarding felling and transit regulations for tree species grown on private land-reg.

1. This is informed to all concerned members of the Committee, State Forest  Departments including agro-foresters, local communities and NGOs, that the Ministry of Environment & Forests constituted a Committee in July 2011 to study the regulatory regime felling and transit regulations for tree species grown on non forest/private lands, to evaluate the experience of different States/UTs and to recommend the regulatory regime in the recently initiated Green India Mission, one of the eight Mission under National Action Plan 

for Climate Change.

2. The Committee has brought out the Report on the study on  felling and transit regulations for tree species grown on non forest/private lands, which is the first of its kind at Central Government.  The undersigned, as a Member  Secretary of the Committee  invite suggestions/comments, if any, on the Report to the undersigned to make the report more effective.

Yours faithfully,

Sd/-

(Subhash Chandra)

Dy. Inspector General of Forests (Forest Policy)

and Member Secretary of the Committee

Telefax; 011-24363974

Link to the full report: http://envfor.nic.in/assets/Rep_Committee_Trees_on_Private_land-27122012.pdf