Government•--of Forest & Environment Department

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No. FCA-I01817-24118/S.F-130/F Date: To, Addl. Principal Chief Conservator of Forests (Central) Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change, Regional Office, Western Region, Kendriya Paryavaran Bhavan, Link Road No.3, E-5, Ravi Shankar Nagar, BHOPAL (M.P.)-462016.

Subject: Diversion of 3.7 ha. Protected Forest land for the project of Four lanning of Tarsada----Navsari road Km.331100to 75/00 in District in favour of Executive Engineer, (R&B) Division-2, Surat.

Sir, Please refer to your letter F.No. 6-GJB02/2019-BHOIl063 dated 18.10.2019 on the subject cited above and it is informed that- Sr. Conditions Compliance No. 1 Legal Status of the forest land shall Agreed remain unchanged. 2 Forest land will be handed over to the Non forest land is not required for this user agency only after required non- proposal. forest land for the project is handed over by the user agency. 3 Compensatory afforestation shall be Agreed taken up by the Forest Department over 8.00 ha. degraded forest land (Co. No. 506 pt, village - Uchwan, Taluka - Umarpada, District- Surat at the cost of the user agency. As far as possible, a mixture of local indigenous species shall be planted and monoculture of any species shall be avoided. Executive 4 The cost of Compensatory afforestation The User Agency- at the prevailing wage rates as per Engineer, R&B division, Surat has compensatory afforestation scheme and deposited an amount of the cost of survey demarcation and Rs.28,30,400/- towards the cost of erection of permanent pillars if required Compensatory Afforestation in the on the CA land shall be deposited in CAMPA fund. advance with the forest department by the project authority. The CA will be maintained for 10 years. The scheme may include appropriate provisions for anticipated costs, increase for works scheduled for subsequent years. 5 The State Government shall ensure to plant at least 1000 plants per ha. in proposed CA land. In case it not possible then remaining plants shall be planted in another degraded forest area and such area shall be intimated to Central Government along with KML file at the cost of user agency. 6 NPV: (c) The State Government shall charge c) The User Agency has deposited an the Net Present Value for the 3.7 ha. amount of Rs.16,20,600/- towards forest area to be diverted under this the cost of NPV in the CAMPA proposal from the User Agency as fund. per the Order of the Hon'ble Supreme Court of dated 30/10/2002, 01/08/2003,28/03/2008, 24/04/2008 and 09/05/2008 in IA No. 566 in WP (C No. 202/1995 and as per the guidelines issued by the Ministry vide letter no. 5-1/1998- FC(Pt.-II) dated 18/09/2003, a well as letter No. 5-2/2006-FC dated 03/1 0/2006 and letter no. 5-3/2007- Fe dated 5/02/2009 and chapter 3 of FGA Handbook, 2019 in this regard. (d) Additional' amount of the NPV of the (d) The User Agency' has :undertaken diverted forest land, if any, that the Additional amount of the becoming due after finalization of NPV of the diverted fot-estland, if the same by the Hon'ble Supreme any, becoming due after Court of India on receipt of the finalization of the same by the report from the Expert Committee, Hon'ble Supreme Court of India shall be charged by the State on receipt of the report from the Government from the User Agency. Expert Committee, shall be The User Agency shall furnish an charged by the State Government. undertaking to this effect. 7 User Agency shall restrict the felling of Agreed

J trees up to 19 number in the diverted forest land and the trees shall be felled under the strict supervision of the State Forest Department and the cost of felling of trees shall be deposited by the user agency with the State Forest Department. 8 All the funds received from the user Funds from the user agency has been agen.cy under the project shall be transferred online to the CAMP A fund transferred / deposited to CAMP A fund through e - portal. only through e-portal. 9 User Agency shall obtain Environment Agreed Clearance as per the prOVISIOns of Environmental Protection Act 1986, if required. 10 User agency shall raise strip plantation Agreed on both sides and central verge of the road as per IRC norms. 11 Speed Regulating signage will be Agreed erected along the road at regular intervals in the protected / forest areas. 12 The User Agency shall provide suitable Agreed under / over passes in the Protected area / forest area as per recommendations of CWLW / NBLW / FAC/ REC, if applicable. 13 The layout plan of the proposal shall not Agreed be changed without prior approval of the Central Government. 14 No labour camp shall be established in Agreed the forest area. 15 Sufficient firewood, preferably alternate Agreed fuel shall be provided by the user agency to the labourers after purchasing them from the forest state department or the Forest Development Corporation or any other legal source of alternate fuel. 16 The boundary of the diverted forest Agreed shall be suitably demarcated on ground, at the project'cost, as per the directions of the concerned Divisional Forest Officer. 17 No additional or new path will be Agreed constructed inside the forest area for transportation of construction materials for execution ofthe project work. 18 The period of diversion under this Agreed approval shall be co-terminus with the period lease to be granted in favour of the user agency of the project life, whichever is.less, 19 The forest land shall not be used for any The User Agency has undertaken that other purpose other than specified in the the forest land shall not be used for any project proposal. purpose, other than that specified in the FCA Proposal. 20 The forest land proposed to be diverted Agreed shall under no circumstances be transferred to any other agencies, department or person without pnor approval of Government of India. 21 All the conditions of State Forest Agreed Department ILocal Forest rules shall be applicable in this project. 22 Violation of any of these conditions will Agreed amount to violation of Forest Conservation Act, 1980 and action would be taken as per para 1.21 of FCA, 1980 Handbook 2019. 23 Any other condition that the Ministry of Agreed Environment, Forests and Climate Change may stipulate from time to time III the interest of conservation, protection and development of forests and wildlife. 24 The compliance report III the letter The Compliance report is uploaded on format of Government of Gujarat shall e-portal. be uploaded on the e-portal. https://parivesh.nic.in In view of above and since the conditions of In-principle approval have already been complied with, the matter may now be referred to APCCF(Central), Bhopal for issuance of formal approval. YO~hfullY,

( S.----M. Saiyad ). Additional Secretary' Encl. As above. Forest & Environment Department copy to:- 1. Nodal officer (FCA), Pro Chief Conservator of Forest's Office. Gujarat State. 'Aranya Bhavan' Sector-I 0/A. Gandhinagar, .. .