Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nUnderlining the efforts of the Government towards preserving\nand improving the forest wealth and ecological security of the country, Shri\nJavadekar said \u201cImportant activities on which the fund will be utilised will be\nfor the Compensatory Afforestation, Catchment Area Treatment, Wildlife\nManagement, Assisted Natural Regeneration, Forest Fire Prevention and Control\nOperations, Soil and Moisture Conservation Works in the forest, Improvement of\nWildlife Habitat, Management of Biological Diversity and Biological Resources,\nResearch in Forestry and Monitoring of CAMPA works etc\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
With the initial experience of the States regarding\nunder-utilisation of the money collected towards compensatory afforestation,\nHon\u2019ble Supreme Court of India ordered for establishment of Compensatory\nAfforestation Fund and Compensatory Afforestation Fund Management and Planning\nAuthority (CAMPA) in 2001. In 2006, separate bank accounts were opened in which\nthe compensatory levies were deposited and adhoc CAMPA was established for the\nmanagement of Compensatory afforestation fund. In 2009, Hon\u2019ble Supreme Court\npermitted release of Rs.1000 crore every year to States\/UTs for compensatory\nafforestation and other activities. In 2014, Hon\u2019ble Supreme Court permitted\nrelease of 10% of total deposit of states in the fund from interest accrued on\nthe deposits. This Act has provisioned that CAMPA funds shall be kept in\ninterest bearing non-lapsable Public Account. After detailed deliberations with\nCAG and Ministry of Finance and deliberations with other Stakeholders, the fund\nflow mechanism could be finalized and the CAF Rules were finally put in place\nin 2018. After notification of CAF Rules, with approval of the Supreme Court on\n28 Jan 2019, an amount of Rs.54,685 Crore from Ad-hoc CAMPA has been brought\nunder the control of Government of India. So far 27 States\/UTs have created\naccounts for receiving the Funds from Union Government and today funds to the\ntune of Rs.47,436 crore have been transferred to those States. The Fund shall\nbe utilized as per the provisions of the CAF Act and CAF Rules.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In a major boost towards promoting afforestation and achieving green objectives of the country, Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Shri Prakash Javadekar, handed over Rs.47,436 crores of CAMPA funds to various states, in presence of Minister of State, MoEF & CC, Shri Babul Supriyo. In a meeting of State Forest Ministers and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":5648,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5647"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5649,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5647\/revisions\/5649"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}