(a) whether the Union Government has received proposals from different States for the development of forests in the country;
(b) if so, the details thereof, State-wise;
(c) the steps taken by the Government to accord approval to the said project proposals; and
(d) the status of the said proposals as on date?
MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT AND FORESTS (SHRI NAMO NARAIN MEENA)
(a), (b), (c) and (d) Ministry of Environment and Forests is implementing National Afforestation Programme (NAP) through two-tier decentralized mechanism of Forest Development Agency (FDA) at Forest Division level and Joint Forest Management Committees (JFMCs) at the village level for regeneration of degraded forests and adjoining lands. As on 31.03.2005, 620 FDA projects had been approved out of a total of 697 proposals received from the States. The State-wise FDA project proposals received and approved up to 31.3.2005 is given in the Annexure. Pending FDA proposals will be approved subject to availability of funds and their conforming to the NAP Guidelines.
Annexure
ANNEXURE REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 3710 DUE FOR ANSWER ON 22.08.2005 REGARDING PROPOSALS FOR FOREST DEVELOPMENT
Progress of FDA Projects
(As on 31.3.2005)
Annexure
ANNEXURE REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 3710 DUE FOR ANSWER ON 22.08.2005 REGARDING PROPOSALS FOR FOREST DEVELOPMENT
Progress of FDA Projects (As on 31.3.2005)
Sl. Name of State No. of FDA Project No. of FDA Project No. proposals received proposals approved 1 Andhra Pradesh 32 28 2 Arunachal Pradesh 16 13 3 Assam 28 24 4 Bihar 9 7 5 Chhattisgarh 31 29 6 Goa 3 3 7 Gujarat 22 16 8 Haryana 16 16 9 Himachal Pradesh 28 27 10 Jammu & Kashmir 31 31 11 Jharkhand 27 27 12 Karnataka 45 41 13 Kerala 25 14 14 Madhya Pradesh 44 44 15 Maharashtra 45 41 16 Manipur 13 12 17 Meghalaya 7 7 18 Mizoram 30 19 19 Nagaland 18 16 20 Orissa 32 32 21 Punjab 12 5 22 Rajasthan 18 16 23 Sikkim 7 7 24 Tamil Nadu 32 31 25 Tripura 13 12 26 Uttar Pradesh 61 56 27 Uttaranchal 32 30 28 West Bengal 20 16 Total 697 620