BHUBANESWAR: The state government on Wednesday decided to identify adequate non-forest land in advance and create land bank for compensatory afforestation. This will help avoid delay in preparation of afforestation plan while moving forest clearance proposals for different mining projects, said chief secretary B K Patnaikafter reviewing progress of forest clearance cases of state-owned Odisha Mining Corporation mines here.
Patnaik said collectors of Kalahandi and Balangirshould take the lead in this matter as large patches of non-forest land are available in their districts for afforestation. He also advised to make use of DGPS and satellite images for identification of such land. The issues relating to compensatory afforestation and settlement of claims under Forest Rights Act in case of forest diversion proposals were discussed in the meeting.
It was decided that revenue and disaster management, forest and environment and mining departments will give necessary instructions to their field-level officials to expedite the different proposals for clearances of OMC mines.
The meeting also took a decision that the committee on eco-sensitive zone constituted by state government shall expedite examine the issues relating to working of mines in eco-sensitive areasand area within one km distance from sanctuary boundary. The committee has been advised to complete the task within a month.
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