Union Minister for Setting, Forestry, and Local weather Change Bhupendra Yadav with Shivamogga MP B.Y. Raghavendra in Delhi on July 3, 2024.
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Shivamogga Lok Sabha member B.Y. Raghavendra met Union Minister for Setting, Forestry, and Local weather Change Bhupendra Yadav in Delhi on July 3. He appealed to the Minister to drop the objections to the renewal of lease of forest land to the Mysore Paper Mills (MPM) in Bhadravati in Shivamogga district of Karnataka.
The MP submitted a letter stating that the MPM, whose lease for 20,005.42 hectares of forest land was renewed in 2020, had not been capable of harvest pulpwood as a result of objections from the Union Authorities. This had affected the corporate and the folks relying on it.
Mr. Raghavendra wrote that the forest land had been leased to the corporate since 1980 for captive pulpwood plantations.
Mysore Paper Mills at Bhadravati in Shivamogga district of Karnataka.
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In a letter on March 8, 2001, the Authorities of India clarified to the federal government of Karnataka that MPM, being a government-owned firm, certified for getting forest land, or a lease, with out acquiring prior approval from the Union Authorities beneath the Forest (Conservation) Act 1980.
“Primarily based on the clarification, the State Authorities renewed the lease for a interval of 40 years with impact from August 11, 2020, with out the approval of the Authorities of India,” the MP said.
Nevertheless, the Authorities of India had thought-about renewal of the lease a violation of the Act, and refused to approve the administration plan for the working of captive pulpwood plantations. He requested the Union Minister drop the objections, and permit the corporate to reap pulpwood.
On June 25, Karnataka Forest Minister Eshwar Khandre had met the Union Minister with a request to drop the objections.
Nevertheless, environmentalists and activists of Shivamogga are against renewal of the lease of forest land to the MPM. They need withdrawal of the forest land from the MPM.
