Ahmedabad: In important orders, the Gujarat High Court on Thursday said that the state government must ask the industry to provide a double non-forest land in compensation for the forest areas allocated to it.
This urged the government to be dissatisfied with the equivalent soil field, stressed that while the government must facilitate development, but also must ensure that forest conservation is never sacrificed.
Justice J B B B Pardiwala and Justice V D Navisati stressed the strict implementation of the state government’s decision to ensure adequate compensation for forest land provided to the industry.
“The user body must be asked to double the land area to compensate for the loss of forest land instead of equal land,” the court was ordered.
The court observations came in connection with the decision of the state government to declare allot 20.76 hectares of forest land in Hazira to ArcelorMittal Nippon Steel Ltd (AMNS).
The proposal for land allotment is debated by Essar Steel Ltd, which was then taken over by AM / NS.
Biren Petitioner Padhya has objected to land on the ground.
That the company was given two fields of forest land before in Hazira, but did not meet the specific requirements imposed on it.
The Ministry of Forestry has even proposed a fierce for the construction and use of inappropriate forest land.
Although it did not satisfy the conditions at the beginning of the case, the government agreed once again to part with forest land.
Advocates of Applicants Abhisst Thaker also took exclusion for several other proposals for forestry land allotment which said that some of them were made by real estate developers.
Justice J B B Pardiwala and Justice V D Nanavati took a serious view of this problem and asked the state government to ensure that forest land must be allocated strictly in accordance with the policy and only for credentials and indiscriminately.
‘Development, but not with the forest costs of the original proposal from the port-based industry in Hazira for industrial / port infrastructure, namely, environmentally friendly storage and transportation of gas, liquid and dense raw materials and products from the Hazira industrial area.
must accept priority in accordance with state policy, “said the Gujarat High Court.
In this case, in compensation for allotment of 20.78 hectares of forest land, the company is required to reforer the equal land in non-forest areas in Palitana in Bhavnagar, which It is a lion corridor.
The land must be transferred and mutated after the Ministry of Forestry.
Other conditions include the company must provide 110 hectares of non-forest land in Sanada Village in Palitana, which also falls in the lion corridor area.
As part of the CSR, he must deposit 2.5 times the market value for the region with the Lion Conservation Society.
In addition, the company is to refine criminal compensation for 41.52 hectares of degraded forests in Songadh, district but.