| Category-wise Number of Cases and Total Area Diverted for Forest Land under Forest (Conservation) Act, 1980 in India (As on 01.01.2012 to 02.08.2017) | ||
| Categories | No. of Cases | Total Land Diverted (In Hectare) |
| Borehole Prospecting | ||
| Defence | ||
| Dispensary/Hospital | ||
| Disputed Settlement Claims | ||
| Drinking Water | ||
| Encroachments | ||
| Forest Village Conversion | ||
| Hydel | ||
| Industry | ||
| Irrigation | ||
| Mining | ||
| Quarrying | ||
| Railway | ||
| Rehabilitation | ||
| Road | ||
| School | ||
| Thermal | ||
| Transmission Line | ||
| Village Electricity | ||
| Wind Power | ||
| Others | ||
| Total | ||
