Section 23

Annual report of National Authority.

The Compensatory Afforestation Fund Act, 2016.

Act 38 of 2016
Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change

About this Act

An Act to provide for the establishment of funds under the public accounts of India and the public accounts of each State and crediting thereto the monies received from the user agencies towards compensatory afforestation, additional compensatory afforestation, penal compensatory afforestation, net present value and all other amounts recovered from such agencies under the Forest (Conservation) Act, 1980, constitution of an authority at national level and at each of the State and Union territory Administration for administration of the funds and to utilise the monies so collected for undertaking artificial regeneration (plantations), assisted natural regeneration, protection of forests, forest related infrastructure development, Green India Programme, wildlife protection and other related activities and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.

All sections

    (1) The National Authority shall prepare, its annual report, giving a full account of its activities during the previous financial year and forward a copy thereof to the Central Government, in such form and at such time, for each financial year, as may be prescribed.
     (2) The annual report shall, inter alia, provide for—
         (i) the summary of monitoring and evaluation of activities undertaken from amounts released from the National Fund and State Funds during the year;
         (ii) the summary of specific schemes specified in sub-clause (iii) of clause (b) of section 5 executed during the year;
         (iii) the amount of money received and expended.