Forest Act all the reserved forests, protected forests and forests in the merged territories shall be deemed to be reserved forests, protected forests or forests ... forest activities on the forest lands which comprised of reserved forests and protected forests as defined under Section 20-A (4) of the Indian Forest
that prior approval under Section 2 of the Forest Act is mandatory for any non-forest activity, the Petitioner placed reliance on Vishnu Kumar Khattar ... Forest Act is against any order permitting use of a forest for non-purpose. Clearly, mining or prospecting for mines, is a non-forest purpose
forest or protected forest it comes within
the purview of the Forest (Conservation) Act and the State
government cannot carry on any non-forest activity ... contention raised on behalf of the Forest Department is that
once the area is reserved forest, non forest activities cannot be allowed
therein, as defined
forest land for
non-forest purposes and for rehabilitating the forest land. The Forest
Conservation Act, 1980 and the rules and guidelines made thereunder contain ... forest land and not on the forest land as such.
Taxing of the undertaking of non-forest activity in a forest land cannot be
regarded
protected forest it comes
within the purview of the Forest (Conservation) Act, 1980 .
Even the State Government cannot carry on any non-forest
activity ... reserve and protected forest but to all areas recorded as
forest in Government records. Mining is non-forestry
activity and, therefore cannot be carried
provisions of the Forest (Conservation)
Act, 1980 the permission of the Central Government was required for
carrying on a non-forest activity in a forest ... applicability of the
Forest (Conservation) Act, 1980 till such time the dispute is resolved or
approval for non-forest activity is accorded under the said
non-forest use of
forest land without prior permission of the Central Government
is not to completely prevent the conduct of non-forest activities.
This ... Central Government to regulate non-
forest use of forest lands. While exercising the power to approve
non-forest use, the Central Government is under
that any forest land or any portion thereof may be used for any non-forest purpose.
(iii) that any forest land or any portion thereof ... reserved forest is that provisions of Section 2 of Forest (Conservation) Act, 1980 came into play and any non forest activity in the land cannot
continue to have the status of reserved forest
and, therefore, for carrying on any non forest activities including the
use as a Golf course, prior ... Assistant Conservator of Forest in respect of
Gat No.311 alleging that the Petitioner had started non-forest activities
thereon. The said order was challenged
constituted as reserved forest and therefore, fell within the
nomenclature of "forest" and hence, no non-forest activity
can take place ... constitute the land comprised in it as "forest", in which any
non-forest activity would require prior approval under
Section
