nForest Minister Mohammad Akbar on Saturday met Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel at his official residence and handed over a cheque of Rs 5791.71 crore to him, which was sanctioned by the Centre for Chhattisgarh under CAMPA fund.
Financial assistance is given to states under the Compensatory Afforestation Fund Management and Planning Authority (CAMPA) to promote afforestation and regeneration activities as a way of compensating for forest land diverted to non-forest uses.
In the meeting, Forest Minister informed that 1860.91 crore have been sanctioned for compensational afforestation, Rs 24.49 crore has been sanctioned for catchment area treatment plant, Rs 302.76 crore has been sanctioned for integrated wildlife management scheme. Besides, Rs 3749,63 crore has been sanctioned under net expectancy value and Rs 482.91 crore under interest fund.
The sanctioned funds would be utilized for compensational afforestation, forest development, productivity enhancement of forests, forest conservation related works, wildlife management and conservation, groundwater conservation, biodiversity, infrastructure development etc.
On the occasion, Additional Chief Secretary RP Mandal, Principal Chief Conservator of Forest Rakesh Chaturvedi and CEO CAMPA V Shrinivas Rao were also present.