National Authority CAMPA organises National Workshop on Settlement and Digitisation of Forest Boundaries, in New Delhi; to accelerate GIS-based Forest Boundary Digitisation

• National Authority CAMPA convened a National Workshop in New Delhi on 10 April 2026 to accelerate GIS-based digitisation of forest boundaries by States/UTs.
• Driven by Supreme Court's Lafarge Umiam Mining Pvt. Ltd. v. Union of India judgment dated 7 July 2011, which mandated a GIS-based decision support database of geo-referenced forest land.
• Relevant to UPSC: intersects environmental governance, forest law, federalism (Centre-State data sharing), Supreme Court jurisprudence, and geospatial tech in administration.