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Centre has regularised two commando camps of the Assam government which were built on forest land without prior approvals in violation of the Van (Sanrakshan Evam Samvardhan) Adhiniyam, 1980. The Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change of India’s Forest Advisory Committee (FAC) has granted ex-post facto clearances to these camps in the Geleky and Hailakandi reserve forests for non-forestry use of 26 hectares and 11.5 hectares of land, respectively.
While granting approval, FAC has ordered the Assam government to pay a penalty for the violations and directed its regional office in Shillong to act against senior officers of the Assam Forest Department. The Committee also stated that there shall be no further expansion in the construction of the camps.
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