class="MsoNormal">The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC), on November 29, 2025, notified regarding the Clarification/guidelines regarding charging of cost of trees in transmission line cases.
The following has been stated, namely:-
It clarified that:- In light of provisions of guidelines given at Annexure-IV regarding 'General and Standard conditions to be stipulated while granting approval under the Van (Sanrakshan Evam Samvardhan) Adhiniyam, 1980, it is evident that the cost of trees to be felled shall only be charged from the user agency. Trees that remain intact and are not required to be felled shall not attract any charges. Further, there is no rationale in charging the felling cost for trees that are neither being felled nor proposed to be felled in the future. However, if at any later stage the felling of such trees becomes necessary, the State may levy the applicable felling cost at that time.
[Notification No. 11/219/2025-FC]
