ES Reporter 

ITANAGAR, Oct 30: The Save Arunachal Movement (SAM) on Monday demanded the state government to constitute a state level monitoring committee to evaluate various schemes implemented under the state Compensatory Afforestation Fund Management and Planning Authority (CAMPA) within 30 days.
General Secretary SAM, Sangey Phuntsok, addressing the media said that failing to address the demand within one month, the organisation will opt for legal action in the form of Public Interest Litigation (PIL). He claimed that CAMPA schemes across the state have been implemented by violating the norms of CAMPA Act 2016.
He further claimed that more than eight thousand crore which was intended to accelerate the preservation of natural forest, wildlife and other allied works for the larger interest of the state have been embezzled by the forest department’s officers.
Informing the media that the organisation have accumulated all the necessary documents through RTI from the concerned department, Phuntsok said according to the CAMPA Act, Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was supposed to be done between department and land owner but shockingly the same was not followed in case of Arunachal Pradesh by the forest department.
“From 2018 to  2023,  the  department has been carrying out plantation schemes across the state without the knowledge of actual land owners,” said Chairman SAM  Tami Pangu.
Stating till date concerned department and officers have breached the laid down rules besides duping the villagers of the state which is serious in nature, SAM also appealed to the Special Investigation Cell (SIC) state police to expedite the investigation process and to punish all the officers involved in the gross mismanagement of funds meant for preservation of nature.
SAM’s demands also include physical evaluation of achievement of plantation work initiated under CAMPA outside Reserve Forest areas, demarcation of the area falling  under afforestation works carried by forest department under CAMPA, inquiry  whether guidelines for scheme proposal were followed or not.

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