PREVIOUS
✖
Van (Sanrakshan Evam Samvardhan) Amendment Rules, 2025
September 6 , 2025
15 hrs 0 min
26
0
- The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) notified the Van (Sanrakshan Evam Samvardhan) Amendment Rules, 2025.
- The rules were notified under the Forest (Conservation) Amendment Act, 2023.
- The new rules allow state governments to grant initial 'working permission' for linear infrastructure projects.
- Earlier, such permissions required full Stage-I clearance from the Centre.
- The rules expand forest land diversion powers for state governments in infrastructure development.
- Public interest and strategic projects may now be processed offline, bypassing online scrutiny via the Parivesh portal.
- Compensatory Afforestation (CA) land need not be notified as a protected forest, but only mutated to the Forest Department.
Leave a Reply
Your Comment is awaiting moderation.