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title: "CAMPA: Compensatory Afforestation Fund Authority"
description: "CAMPA is India's authority managing afforestation funds from forest land diversion under the 2016 Act. Learn how levies, NPV and the ₹50,000-crore corpus work."
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Model Diplomat Research Team · Last reviewed June 22, 2026

TL;DR

- CAMPA is India's statutory authority that manages funds collected from users who divert forest land, channelling the money into compensatory afforestation and forest regeneration.
- What is the difference between compensatory afforestation and Net Present Value under CAMPA?
- How is the CAMPA corpus divided between the centre and the states?
- Why has CAMPA been criticised despite its large corpus?
- How does CAMPA relate to the Forest (Conservation) Act, 1980?

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In August 2019, India's Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change transferred about ₹47,000 crore of accumulated CAMPA funds to the states, with Odisha and Chhattisgarh receiving the largest shares for afforestation.

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