{"id":44003,"date":"2018-11-10T10:05:16","date_gmt":"2018-11-10T05:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/blog\/?p=44003"},"modified":"2018-11-09T18:06:28","modified_gmt":"2018-11-09T13:06:28","slug":"kp-looking-to-amend-forest-act-2002","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/kp-looking-to-amend-forest-act-2002.html","title":{"rendered":"KP looking to amend Forest Act 2002"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Peshawar: The provincial cabinet has decided to form a committee to amend the Forest Act 2002 so that construction can take place in protected forest areas, a news source reported. The amendments have been under discussion for a while.<\/p>\n<p>Mines &amp; Minerals Department and Tourism Department have been looking to amend Section 33 of Forest Act 2002 which will allow construction to take place in barren and subsistence forests in the provinces, so it could be used for commercial purposes.<\/p>\n<p>KP Minister for Mines &amp; Mineral Development Dr Amjad Ali had stated last month that strict forest laws have caused precious minerals to lie unexplored and unutilised. The protection is to be removed only from barren lands falling under subsistence forest areas, so that land could be utilised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peshawar: The provincial cabinet has decided to form a committee to amend the Forest Act 2002 so that construction can take place in protected forest areas, a news source reported. The amendments have been under discussion for a while. Mines &amp; Minerals Department and Tourism Department have been looking to amend Section 33 of Forest Act 2002 which will allow construction to take place in barren and subsistence forests in the provinces, so it could be used for commercial purposes. KP Minister for Mines &amp; Mineral Development Dr Amjad Ali had stated last month that strict forest laws have caused precious minerals to lie unexplored and unutilised. The protection is to be removed only from barren lands falling under subsistence forest areas, so that land could be utilised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":39734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[8854],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-44003","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"tag-kp-looking-to-amend-forest-act-2002"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>KP looking to amend Forest Act 2002 - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Peshawar: The provincial cabinet has decided to form a committee to amend the Forest Act 2002 so that construction can take place in protected forest\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/kp-looking-to-amend-forest-act-2002.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"KP looking to amend Forest Act 2002 - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Peshawar: The provincial cabinet has decided to form a committee to amend the Forest Act 2002 so that construction can take place in protected forest\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/kp-looking-to-amend-forest-act-2002.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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