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- The State Government of Karnataka will soon declassify 6.64 lakh hectares out of 9.94 lakh hectares from the deemed forests category in the state.
- The States in India have full liberty in defining the deemed forest.
- Deemed Forests are land tracts that appear to be forest but have not been notified as forest in historical records or government records.
- The deemed forests comprise 1% of forest land in India.
- According to Forest Conservation Act, 1980, the preservation of forest areas is continuously monitored by the Supreme Court of India.
- In 1996, the Supreme Court in the Godavarman case ordered the states to identify and classify deemed forests.
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