Restriction on Location of Wood Based Industries.

(1) No new Wood Based Industry shall be granted licence within one kilometre aerial distance from Government Forests notified as Reserve Forests, Protected Areas, Protected Forests or unclassed forests but not the strips along roads, canals, drains, bandhs, rails and escapes notified as Protected Forests. (2) Wood Based Industry can be set up within a Notified Industrial Estate/Park or a municipal area irrespective of the aerial distance as mentioned in sub-rule (1). (3) The restriction imposed in sub rule (1) shall be applicable to only those units which require license. (4) Already existing units which are duly licensed shall not be required to shift their location.