New Draft National Forest Policy, 2018

It intends to cover at least one-third of India's entire land area with forest cover using scientific interventions and tight laws to protect the dense cover.

  • Unlike previous policies, which focused on environmental stability and ecological balance, the 2018 policy emphasises the international challenge of climate change.
  • While the ministry has dropped the environment cess proposed in the scrapped 2016 draught policy, it has kept several contentious clauses in its 2018 draught.
  • PPP Models: PPP models for afforestation and replanting in degraded forest regions, forest areas available with Forest Development Corporations, and outside forests will be developed.
  • "Suitable soil and water conservation techniques, as ....
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Ecology & Environment