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Huge decline in grasslands, fallow lands, trees and forests, 1 lakh hectares of land per year is slipping into the area of industry or companies.
Dilip Patel
Ahmedabad, 22 July 2024 (Translation from Gujarati by Google)
223 square kilometers of forest decreased in Gujarat in two years from 2019 to 2021.
The continuous decline in forest area in Gujarat, which has tribal areas from Umargam to Ambaji, has become a matter of concern. Gujarat has less than ten percent forest area.
There is no alternative to trees. AC is not a permanent solution to heat. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is going to plant 17 crore trees in Gujarat by running a campaign named Ek Pad Ya Naam. Every year there is a season for tree growth. But the tree cover is decreasing.
The state government gave 20 square kilometers of land to forest industries in 3 years
The government took one crore part of one square kilometer forest and gave it to the forest.
In 2022-23, the government had given 1291 hectares of forest area in the state.
Road-electric line 944.76 hectares.
45.9 hectares to industries.
Other purposes 88.93 hectares.
Irrigation 212.26 hectares.
Out of which industries get land
1237 hectares in 2020-21,
448 hectares in 2021-22
318 hectares in three years in 2022-23 A total of 2 thousand hectares of forest land has been given to industries.
Forests have been destroyed.
Manita Industries
ArcelorMittal Group grabbed 93.67 hectares of forest land in Hazira, Surat in the name of a 300 MW power station. When the steel plant was set up, the government legalized it.
Forests and lands were snatched and given for Rs 18 crore 52 lakh.
Land was given to 13 industries
1- Adani Group
2-Reliance Industries
3 – Noble Cera Coat
4 – Morai Infrastructure Pvt.
5 – Archean Chemical Industries Pvt.
6 – Snowdrops Energy Pvt.
7 – RSPL Ltd.
8-Narmada Clean Tech
9 – IRM Energy Pvt.
10 – Torrent Gas Pvt.
11 – Sion Utility & Com. Infrastructure Pvt.
12 – Suryavanshi Power Infra Pvt.
13-Lavme Kumar Rathod.
In 2021, 21 industries demanded forest land. In which 173 hectares of land was given. In 2022, 8 industries demanded forest in which 7.3 hectares of land was given.
The land was allotted as per the revised Business Allotment Rules 1961 dated January 31, 2017 of the Modi government.
Forest fell
According to the Forest Department report, forests have decreased in 17 districts of Gujarat. According to Gujarat Forest Statistics 2022-23, only 9.05 percent of the total geographical area of Gujarat is forested.
Forest – Trees
The total area of Gujarat is 1 lakh 96 thousand 244 square kilometers, out of which 14 thousand 926 square kilometers is protected forest area. The state has 378 square kilometers of dense forest, 5 thousand 032 square kilometers of medium dense forest and 9 thousand 516 square kilometers of other forest areas.
An area of 2 thousand 828 square kilometers is such where there are limited number of trees. This is 1.44 percent of the total area of the state.
There are trees in an area of 5 thousand 489 square kilometers in the state, which is 2.80 percent of the total area of the state. There has been a decline in the percentage of area covered by trees. In the census done in the year 2019, the area of ’tree cover’ was 3.52 percent of the total area of the state, which has now decreased to 2.80 percent in the year 2021. This is the situation even after the increase in the horticulture area.
13 districts of the state have less than five percent forest area. Ahmedabad, Amreli, Anand, Bharuch, Bhavnagar, Botad, Gandhinagar, Kheda, Mehsana, Morbi, Rajkot, Surendranagar and Vadodara districts are experiencing rapid decline in forest area due to urbanization.
Dang, Tapi, Narmada, Chhota Udaipur, Junagadh and Valsad are the only districts where forests cover more than 25 percent of the total area.
The total area of Gujarat is one lakh 96 thousand 244 square kilometers, out of which 17 thousand 754 square kilometers is forest area. According to the National Forest Policy, there should be 33 percent forests.
To achieve the target of 33 percent forest cover, 40 lakh trees will have to be planted per hectare of land every year. But at present this type of work is being done only on 1.32 million hectares of land.
In Gandhinagar alone, more than 14 thousand trees have been cut in the last two years.
In 2022-23, the Gujarat government allocated a budget of Rs 1767.24 crore to the Forest Department.
The Forest Department does the work of social forestry, tree plantation. Despite the programs running for years, why has the forest area not increased in the state?
In the last few years, a large amount of forest land has been handed over to industries and the pressure on the forest has become regular.
According to experts, not enough efforts are being made for fencing, demarcation and protection of forest areas from dew. No efforts are made to prevent encroachment on forests.
Biodiversity is very low in the forests of Gujarat.
Industries have cleared the Cher forests in the coastal areas.
Forest fires broke out 3500 times in Gujarat in 4 years.
The temperature is rising and the effects of climate change are intensifying.
Hot Ahmedabad
The night-time temperature in Ahmedabad has increased by 1.06 degrees per decade, which is the highest in the country. The main reason for this is that there are fewer trees here. The central government has approved 10 projects covering an area of 178.5 hectares in Gujarat from 2020 to 2024. Urban forests have been created in 16 districts at a cost of 25 lakh.
The last land survey in Gujarat was conducted after Narendra Modi became the Chief Minister. Before becoming the Prime Minister, Narendra Modi had said, Uncle
Uttam Kha from Shiva to Vapi
Congress has ruined the farmers by giving their rightful land to industries.
Description Lakh hectares
97 acres for cultivation
Barren, not cultivable 26
Non-agricultural consumption 11.50
Cultivable fallow 20
18.54 Forest area
Permanent pastures and grazing 8.50
Ongoing and other pending 6.86
Total land 188
Land needed in Gujarat after Modi became the Prime Minister
3 lakh hectares of land will have to be acquired for SEZ, SAR, Port City, Industry.
1 lakh 30 thousand hectares of land for 13 Special Investment Regions – SAR
There are 4 lakh industries. Every 2 years 17 to 20 thousand MoUs are signed for new industries.
33 thousand hectares of land has been lost in 60 Special Economic Zones.
By 2009, 33 thousand hectares of land had already been lost with 265 GIDCs.
It is estimated that 50 thousand hectares of land has gone to industries from 2013 till now.
From 2003 to 2009, 40 thousand hectares of land has gone to industries.
In 5 years till 2013, 15 thousand hectares of land was given to 373 companies.
In 2020, it was decided to allocate 1 lakh 7 thousand hectares of land to industries.
PCPIR near Bharuch 45300 hectares.
35 thousand hectares of Dholera.
32250 hectares in Changodar
Port City
15 thousand hectares in Port City Pipavav,
20 thousand hectares in Hazira,
13500 hectares in Mundra
17500 hectares in Navlakhi
225 hectares in Gandhinagar Gift City
Change in land type in 16 years
Type 2006-07 – 2022-23
Forest 18,33,400 – 20,58,300
Abandoned 25,95,000 – 20,77,600
Non-agricultural 11,63,200 – 15,19,800
Falling cultivation 19,75,800 – 17,66,200
Gauchar 8,52,500 – 7,86,800
Current pending 6,22,700 – 6,60,900
Other dues 1,92,000 – 1,83,600
Agriculture Plantation 97,44,900 – 97,48,500
Gujarat 1,88,10,200 – 1,88,10,200
Change in land use during Modi’s 16 years of rule
An increase of 2,24,900 hectares in forest has been claimed. Most of which may be cher forests.
Fallow land has reduced by 5 lakh hectares, which has been given to industries.
Increase of 3,56,600 in barren land given to industries or cities.
Fallow land has reduced by 2,09,600. Which is given to agriculture, industry and grazing.
The present fallow land has increased to 38 thousand hectares. Which was probably salty.
Another 10 thousand hectares of barren land has been given to industries.
Out of fallow or barren land, 4 thousand hectares of cultivable land would have been given.
65,700 Gauchar land has been reduced. Which has been given to industries or is under pressure.
In two years, 18 lakh square meters of Gauchar land has been sold to industries.
In the last two years, 103.80 crore square meters of land has been leased to industries or transactions have been done through sale.
16 years of accounts
Thus it can be seen that 11 lakh hectares of land has been lost in 16 years in the construction of industries, roads and houses. Looking at the way the desert of Kutch is being given, 16 lakh hectares of land will go to the industry. Thus every year 1 lakh hectare (2.48 lakh acres) of land is going to the industries. Every year 1 lakh hectare of land is going to the scope of industry or companies. Thus 1 thousand square kilometers of land has gone to the industrialists. 10 hectares is 1 lakh square meters of land. (Translation from Gujarati by Google)
