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Part of Manipur's forests may be diverted for hydel project
Nagaland Post | Agencies | New Delhi, Jul 7 (
The environment ministry will consider clearing a whopping 300 sq km of forests for projects in the next meeting of its Forest Advisory Committee (FAC), the statutory body which appraises projects that require forest land . The proposals before the FAC include the controversial Tipaimukh hydroelectric dam, which alone will require submergence of 227 sq km of prime forest land in Manipur that will destroy 82.47 lakh trees.
This is the second largest forest diversion ever asked for, by a hydroelectric project in India. It involves vast swathes of forests and bamboo clumps on lands that are used by communities for shifting cultivation.
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