Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
Substituted by Act, 23 of 2016 w.e.f 16.08.2016. (3) Any amount transferred to the said fund under sub-section (2), shall be charged upon the Consolidated Fund of the State. 2[(4). The amount at credit of the said fund shall be expended only for one or more of the following purposes, namely:- (a) raising of plantations in notified forest areas and such other purposes as are ancillary thereto namely soil and moisture conservation works in notified forest areas; (b) consolidation of the boundaries of notified forest areas; (c) Acquisition of private areas for the consolidation of forests; (d) construction and maintenance of forest housing in rural areas for frontline staff; (e) training, capacity building, research and technology; (f) sustaining Joint Forest Planning and Management activities and the Village Forest Committees/eco development committees; (g) rehabilitation and resettlement of people from interior forest areas; (h) such other activities relating to Forest development or management or wild life protection and management as may be notified by the State Government from time to time]1]2