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 +{{htmlmetatags>metatag-keywords=(Forest clearance records — Himachal HC,High Court of Himachal Pradesh RTI,RTI §4,RTI §7,RTI §8,forest clearance,Himachal HC,CAMPA,§4)&metatag-description=(Forest Conservation Act clearances, compensatory afforestation records and green-bench orders are §4 proactive material.)}}
 +
 +====== Forest clearance records — Himachal HC ======
 +
 +<WRAP center round info 95%>
 +**High Court of Himachal Pradesh** · 2020-01-01 · Citation awaited
 +</WRAP>
 +
 +//Forest clearances + compensatory afforestation records: §4(1)(b) proactive disclosure required.//
 +
 +===== Case details =====
 +
 +^ Court | High Court of Himachal Pradesh |
 +^ Decided | 2020-01-01 |
 +^ Citation | Citation awaited |
 +^ Petitioner | Environmental NGO |
 +^ Respondent | State Forest Department |
 +^ RTI Act sections | §4(1)(b) |
 +^ Outcome | Applicant allowed |
 +
 +===== Outcome =====
 +
 +Forest Conservation Act clearances, compensatory afforestation records and green-bench orders are §4 proactive material.
 +
 +===== Ratio decidendi =====
 +
 +Clearances granted under the Forest (Conservation) Act, 1980, compensatory afforestation records under CAMPA, and NGT / green-bench orders that affect state forest policy are public-interest records. §4(1)(b) mandates proactive disclosure via the state forest department's portal.
 +
 +===== Keywords =====
 +
 +forest clearance, Himachal HC, CAMPA, §4
 +
 +===== Similar cases in the corpus =====
 +
 +//These rulings have the closest editorial ratio to this case — computed by tf-idf cosine similarity over ratio, keywords and Act sections. Useful starting points if you are researching the same point of law.//
 +
 +  * [[/cases/cic-environmental-clearances-rti-2020|Environmental clearances & EIA — CIC]] (CIC 2020)
 +  * [[/cases/hc-rajasthan-rti-ngt-compliance-2021|NGT order compliance records — Rajasthan HC]] (HC-RAJ 2021)
 +  * [[/cases/cic-rti-environmental-clearance-granted-2020|Environmental clearance grant records — CIC]] (CIC 2020)
 +  * [[/cases/hc-chhattisgarh-rti-mining-2021|Mineral concession records — Chhattisgarh HC]] (HC-CG 2021)
 +  * [[/cases/sic-hp-rti-apple-procurement-2022|HPMC apple procurement records — Himachal SIC]] (SIC-HP 2022)
 +
 +===== Related =====
 +
 +  * [[https://righttoinformation.wiki/cases/search?court=HC-HP|All High Court of Himachal Pradesh rulings in the corpus]]
 +  * [[https://righttoinformation.wiki/cases/search?section=4|All RTI cases turning on §4]]
 +  * [[https://righttoinformation.wiki/cases/search?section=7|All RTI cases turning on §7]]
 +  * [[https://righttoinformation.wiki/cases/search?section=8|All RTI cases turning on §8]]
 +  * [[:cases:search|Full case-law search]]
 +  * [[:cases|Case-Law Database — overview]]
 +  * [[:pio-rti-reply-guide|PIO RTI Reply Guide]]
 +  * [[:act|The RTI Act, 2005 — annotated]]
 +
 +<WRAP center round alert 95%>
 +**Editorial summary, not a certified report.** The ratio here is an editorial compression. Before citing this ruling in a PIO order, FAA speaking order, or any appellate filing, **verify against the full reported decision**. RTI Wiki is not a legal service.
 +</WRAP>
 +
 +~~NOCACHE~~
 +
 +//Editorial summary · last reviewed 21 April 2026.//
 +
 +{{tag>case-law court-hc-hp section-4 section-7 section-8}}
  
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