India, July 21 -- Delhi has failed to utilise a significant chunk of its Compensatory Afforestation Fund Management and Planning Authority (CAMPA) funds, spending just over Rs.25 crore out of Rs.116.78 crore allocated between 2019-20 and 2023-24, an analysis carried out by the Supreme Court-appointed Central Empowered Committee (CEC) found.

In a report dated July 11, CEC analysed the utilisation of the Central CAMPA funds allocated to each state by the National CAMPA - an apex body which collects a corpus from projects where forest land was diverted for non-forestry activities. The funds are released to states with fixed targets for agroforestry in non-forest land to compensate for felled forests. The Supreme Court has questioned poor ut...