Section 28

Annual report of State 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) Each State 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 concerned State Government, in such form and at such time, for each financial year, as may be prescribed.
     (2) The annual report of a State Authority shall, inter alia, provide for—
         (i) the number and location of each reforestation, afforestation and conservation activity subject to the requirement of this section;
         (ii) the amount and location of lands in hectares, cleared, conserved and planted in connection with the activity; and
         (iii) the amount of afforestation money collected and expended.