{"id":486974,"date":"2022-04-26T12:14:13","date_gmt":"2022-04-26T06:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=486974"},"modified":"2022-04-26T12:14:13","modified_gmt":"2022-04-26T06:44:13","slug":"state-owned-companies-running-captive-coal-blocks-can-now-use-degraded-forests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/state-owned-companies-running-captive-coal-blocks-can-now-use-degraded-forests\/","title":{"rendered":"State-owned companies running captive coal blocks can now use degraded forests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>State-owned companies that operate captive coal mines will now be allowed compensatory afforestation activities on degraded forests instead on non-forest land, the environment ministry has said.<\/p>\n<p>Compensatory afforestation over degraded forests that is double in extent instead of equivalent of non-forest land may be considered for captive coal blocks of state public sector units on a case-by-case basis, the environment ministry\u2019s forest conservation division said in a letter to all state governments and union territories on April 11.<\/p>\n<p>The forest conservation rules of 2003 earlier said such plantations should be raised on non-forest land to compensate for loss of forests due to coal mining.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State-owned companies that operate captive coal mines will now be allowed compensatory afforestation activities on degraded forests instead on non-forest land, the environment ministry has said. Compensatory afforestation over degraded forests that is double in extent instead of equivalent of non-forest land may be considered for captive coal blocks of state public sector units on a case-by-case basis, the environment ministry\u2019s forest conservation division said in a letter to all state governments and union territories on April 11. The forest conservation rules of 2003 earlier said such plantations should be raised on non-forest land to compensate for loss of forests [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[186,141,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-486974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coal-hindustantimes","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}