NEW DELHI, Mar 4: The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed all the states and Union Territories to constitute within a month expert committee for preparing a consolidated record of lands, including forest like areas, unclassed and community forest lands.
A bench of Justices B R Gavai and Augustine George Masih said the expert committee shall complete within six months the exercise as required under Rule 16 (1) of the Van (Sanrakshan Evam Samvardhan) Rules, 2023.
The bench noted that rule 16 (1) required all the state governments and Union Territories to prepare a consolidated record of such lands, including forest like areas identified by the expert committee, unclassed forest lands and community forest lands to which the provisions of the 2023 forest conservation law would be applicable.
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