These clearances are papers that allow trees to be cut and land to be taken, sir. NPV is a number they calculate for the trees lost, and compensatory afforestation is where they promise to plant new trees elsewhere. But from where I stand, it means the good, fertile ragi fields near my village are taken for this planting, while the real forest is cut far away. They took my neighbour's land by the stream, sumne calling it 'waste land', for such afforestation. Now he tends those sickly saplings instead of his crops, with only the promised compensation, which is always delayed, for his shrama.
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