The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change on April 24, 2023, issued the Breeders of Species Licence Rules, 2023.
The following has been stated: -
•Procedures for filing of applications for Licence - Any person who is engaged in breeding in captivity or artificially propagating a scheduled specimen listed in Appendix I shall, within a period of ninety days of the commencement of the Wild Life (Protection) Amendment Act, 2022 (18 of 2022), make an application to the Chief Wild Life Warden in Form I either in person or through electronic mode or through registered post addressed to the Chief Wild Life Warden of the concerned State or the Union territory.
•Fees for Licence - Every application made under rule 3 shall be accompanied with a fee of twenty-five thousand rupees through electronic mode or in the form of a Demand Draft drawn on any bank in India in favor of the Chief Wild Life Warden payable at the place where the office of Chief Wild Life Warden is situated.
•Registration of applications - The Chief Wild Life Warden may authorize an officer in his office not below the rank of Deputy Conservator of Forests to endorse the application, and on receipt of the application the authorized officer shall scrutinize the application as expeditiously as possible.
•Verification of application - The authorized officer, as referred to in rule 5 shall within seven days from the date of receipt of the application forward the application to the concerned Deputy Conservator of Forests having jurisdiction over the area in which the facility is located for field verification.
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This shall come into force on April 24, 2023.
[Notification No. S.O. 1950(E)]
