Welcome to National Forest Land Management Portal. State Forest Departments can
use the Portal to manage the records of their forest land in a efficient and effective
manner. The functionality of the system is as under:
- Master Data Management of Adminstrative Structure: Districts, Tehsils, Revenue Circles,
Patwari Halkas & Villages, Khasra
- Master Data Management of Departmental Structure: Forest Circles, Forest Divisions,
Forest Blocks
- Registration of Forest Blocks - Names, Area, Forest Block Type, Notification Status
- History of formation of the Forest Blocks including the villages,
khsasras, gazet notification & all other related notifications
- Centralized Repository of all Gazet Notifications releted to the forest land for
online dissemination.
For more details please click here to download the
help document/user Manual
Forest land has been under immense pressure for its diversion for non forestry purposes.
Important reasons for such diversion have been mining, irrigation, hydroelectric
projects, encroachments for agriculture etc. To regulate indiscriminate diversion
of forest land for non-forestry purposes, Forest (Conservation) Act 1980 was enacted.
It envisages seeking permission of Government of India before diversion of forest
land. The enforcement of this Act has brought down the diversion of forest land
considerably. It is evident from the fact that as against diversion of 15.65 lakh
ha of forest land prior to 1980, only 1.21 lakh ha has been diverted thereafter.
Thus a total of 16.86 lakh ha of forest land has been diverted for other purpose.
The diversion of forest land for non-forestry purposes cannot be avoided. It is,
however, necessary to regulate the diversion in a manner so that it is minimal .
In the Department, the wing of Land Management is entrusted the task of supervising
the cases of diversion of forest land.
Objectives :
Manage forest land
Oversee diversion of forest land for non-forestry purposes
Settlement of land disputes
Settlement of encroachments
Maintenance and upkeep of forest boundaries
Forest (Conservation) Rules, 2003 framed in this regard provide procedure for the
diversion of forest land for non-forestry purpose. Government of India issued guidelines
to simplify the procedure for submission of proposals seeking prior approval of
Government of India. Separate formats have been prescribed for different agencies(
Sample of formats). Application complete in all respects, as per the prescribed
check list, is to be submitted by the user to the concerned Conservator of Forests
(Territorial) along with registration and processing fees Conservator of Forests
(Territorial) have been nominated as Regional Nodal Officer as per Forest Conservation
Rules, 2003. After registration it is processed on the basis of check list and if
found complete it is submitted to the Chief Conservator of Forests, Land Management
who is the Nodal Officer. Thereafter, a case number is allotted and after due scrutiny
the case is forwarded to Government of India through Government of M.P. The cases
approved by Government of India for diversion are given sanction in two stages.
First stage sanction is issued with stipulated conditions. After compliance of these
conditions, final sanction is granted.
There are following categories of Application Forms:
Diversion of forest land for irrigation.
Diversion of forest land for Major Mining.
Diversion of forest land for Minor Mining.
Diversion of forest land for Electric/ Power Line, Hydel Projects, etc.
Diversion of forest land for other categories.