A behind the scene dialogue between Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and Opposition leader Ghulam Nabi Azad on Wednesday is believed to have p...

The Bill was approved by the Lok Sabha on May 3 and is pending in the Upper House, where the ruling NDA does not have a majority.

The proposed law is expected to create over 15 crore man-days of direct employment, most of it in the tribal and backward areas of the coun...

The Lok Sabha on Tuesday unanimously passed the much awaited Compensatory Afforestation Fund (CAF) Bill, 2015 that aims to ensure expeditio...

The bill is expected to be tabled in the Parliament in the second half of the budget session which will start from April 25.

The bill seeks to pave the way for expeditious utilisation of funds realised for forest land diverted to non-forest purposes in a transpare...

Parliamentary Standing Committee had sought a fresh extension to present its report on the CAF Bill 2015 which is the brainchild of Environ...

The Centre is hopeful that the bill to utilize close to Rs 40,000 crore currently locked in the Compensatory Afforestation Fund Management ...

A huge fund of Rs 40,000 crore will soon be available for compensatory afforestation all over the country.

Environment and Forest Minister Prakash Javadekar today said that government has planned to bring the Compensatory Afforestation Fund (CAF)...

The three legislations are the National Waterways Bill, the Compensatory Afforestation Bill and the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Dev...

The government on Friday introduced the much awaited Compensatory Afforestation Fund (CAF) Bill in Lok Sabha. The proposed legislation seek...

The proposed law aims at unlocking the mega corpus by moving it to the non-lapsable interest bearing funds under the Public Accounts of Ind...

In a move which may give a major boost to the country’s efforts to increase its green cover under a law, the Union Cabinet on Wednesday gav...

The cabinet's nod would ensure utilisation of accumulated unspent funds already available with Compensatory Afforestation Fund Management a...

The government's flagship 'Green India' programme meant to afforest 6 million hectares of countryside, has hit a major snag.

A Bill to establish a statutory fund and a Management Authority to undertake a massive afforestation programme was introduced in the Lok Sa...