Section 1(1) in The Chhattisgarh State Forest Policy, 2001
1.2The new State of Chhattisgarh came into being on 1st November, 2000. There is a necessity to review the situation and to evolve for the future, a new strategy of forest conservation, which encompasses the special characteristics of the State as well as provides it a new direction. Since forest is a concurrent subject under the Constitution of the country, the State's forest policy has to remain in tune with the current National Forest Policy.
