Thiruvananthapuram: Forest and Environment Minister Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishanan Wednesday said that the Kerala Forest (Vesting and Management of Ecologically Fragile Lands) Act would be amended.
“The law department is reviewing the legal procedures for making an amendment in the Act,” Thiruvanchoor said in the Assembly.
An expert panel, set up by the government to formulate the State’s response to the report of the Kasturirangan committee on the conservation of the Western Ghats, had recommended for the withdrawal of the EFL Act, 2003.