The Parliamentary Joint committee on the draft Forest Conservation (Amendment) Act 2023 on Thursday has accepted every single amendment proposed by the Ministry of Environment, Forests & Climate Change and recommended it entirely unchanged, as per its report tabled in Parliament on Thursday.
Four Opposition party Members of Parliament- who were on the panel- Congress MPs Pradyut Bordoloi and Phulodevi Netam, Trinamool Congress Jawahar Sircar and DMKs R Girirajan – have expressed their dissent in writing to provisions in the draft Bill.