Odisha creates 2,600 acres land bank for compensatory afforestation

Odisha

Odisha creates 2,600 acres land bank for compensatory afforestation

February 10, 2022

The Odisha government has created a land bank of around 26,000 acres of land for Compensatory Afforestation (CA) across the state. Additional Chief Secretary, Revenue and Disaster Management, S Sahu informed a meeting chaired by Chief Secretary S C Mohapatra here that around 26,500 acres of degraded revenue forest land were identified in 18 districts during the month of January 2022.

According to the reports, the districts where land bank for deforestation is identified are – Keonjhar, Sundargarh, Bolangir, Jajpur, Mayurbhanj, Balasore, Sambalpur, Angul, Cuttack, Dhenkanal, Ganjam, Jagatsinghpur, Jharsuguda, Malkangiri, Nabrangpur, Nuapada, Subarnapur and Nayagarh.

S Sahu said tribal-dominated Keonjhar district tops the list with identification of around 10,800 acres of land identified in a month. Stating that the target was fixed to increase the size of the land bank to 50,000 acres by March 2022, he said, it has been decided to bring 1 lakh acre of land for the land bank for CA within a year.

It was decided in the meeting that the Additional Chief Secretary Revenue and Disaster Management Department would be the Nodal Officer for allotment of land for compensatory afforestation. The executing agencies of the developmental projects would approach the Additional District Magistrate (Revenue) of the concerned district for demarcation of land for CA out of the land bank.

He also directed to undertake compensatory afforestation (CA) against the forest land to be diverted. ADM Cuttack and DFO Athagarh were asked to demarcate the land for CA out of the land already identified by the Revenue and Disaster Management Department.

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