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Non- Forest Use

Forest Area diverted to Non-Forest use in Orissa

Sl. No.	Year	Number of Projects	Area diverted to Non-forest use (in hectare)
1	1982	1	3.43
2	1983	4	124.02
3	1984	18	2000.89
4	1985	5	517.38
5	1986	3	770.08
6	1987	5	952.90
7	1988	9	975.63
8	1989	13	1737.38
9	1990	24	2714.92
10	1991	5	3.17
11	1992	7	508.84
12	1993	8	4729.25
13	1994	3	788.92
14	1995	6	317.94
15	1996	12	1354.61
16	1997	14	1902.49
17	1998-99	53	4722.35
18	2000-01	27	1219.06
19	2001-02	20	1711.74
20	2002-03	15	508.18
21	2003-04	23	1493.71
22	2004-05	9	1274.39
23	2005-06	28	2207.23
24	2006-07	17	886.21
Total		329	33424.72

(Area in hectare)

Sl. No.	Name of the Sector	Proposals finally approved by GOI
Sl. No.	Name of the Sector	No. of Proposals	Forest area diverted as on 1.4.2004	No. of Proposal during 2004-05	Area
1	Angul	61	6910	NA	NA
2	Balasore	6	2425	NA	NA
3	Bargarh	88	9761	NA	NA
4	Bhadrak	48	3015	NA	NA
5	Bolangir	30	273	NA	NA
6	Boudh	5	1965	NA	NA
7	Cuttack	32	4420	NA	NA
Total		270	28769	9	1274

N.B.- NA-Not Available
Source- Economic Survey

(Area in hectare)

Sl. No.	Name of the Sector	No. of Proposals	Forest area diverted as on 1.4.2004
1	Irrigation	6	1224.664
2	Industries	2	65.039
3	Mining	13	847.05
4	Transmission line	2	8.762
5	Roads & Bridges	2	5.172
6	Railway line	1	2.998
7	Defence, Human Habitation & others	-	-
Total		26	2153.685

Source- Economic Survey

(Area in hectare)

Source- Economic Survey