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Forest Conversion |
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| What is affected |
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| Type of violation |
Dispossession/confiscation Privatization of public goods and services Environmental/climate event |
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| Date | 01 January 2021 | ||||||||||
| Region | A [ Asia ] | ||||||||||
| Country | Kashmir | ||||||||||
| Location | Across Indian-occupied Kashmir | ||||||||||
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| Details |
576 hectares forest land.pdf |
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| Development | 576 hectares forest land.pdf | ||||||||||
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| Brief narrative |
Delhi’s Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change acknowledges allotting more than 576 hectares of Kashmiri forest land for non-forest “infrastructure and commercial projects” between 2021 and 2024. | ||||||||||
| Costs | € 0 | ||||||||||
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