No deadline to implement long pending Inviolate Forest Policy, says govt

Policy recommends keeping 40% of India's forests safe from all kind of mining

The government said it doesn’t have a deadline by which the long-pending inviolate forest policy will be implemented.
 
The policy, awaiting a final approval for more than four years now, requires the government to sequester good forests and biodiverse areas from all kind of mining, including coal.
 
In its last assessment, the government’s Forest Survey of India had recommended that under the policy, over 40 per cent of the country’s existing forest cover should be kept safe from mining of all sorts. This recommendation came in a report submitted in August 2016. This would require denying mining rights