{"id":60141,"date":"2016-08-05T10:57:46","date_gmt":"2016-08-05T05:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/?p=60141"},"modified":"2016-09-13T15:01:35","modified_gmt":"2016-09-13T09:31:35","slug":"the-compensatory-afforestation-fund-act-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2016\/08\/05\/the-compensatory-afforestation-fund-act-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"The Compensatory Afforestation Fund Act, 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Compensatory Afforestation Fund Act, 2016 (38 of 2016) receives President\u2019s assent on the 3rd August, 2016.\u00a0The object of the Act is to provide for the establishment of funds under the public accounts of India and the public accounts of each State and crediting thereto the monies received from the user agencies towards compensatory afforestation, additional compensatory afforestation, penal compensatory afforestation, net present value and all other 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