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In focussing on building carbon stocks in plantations, the proposed amendments to The Forest (Conservation) Act, 1980, weaken the very purpose of the legislation, which is to protect and conserve India's forests.The Bill tries to achieve both objectives by restricting the FC Act's applicability and freeing up land currently locked up as unrecorded forests. Following Independence, vast swathes of forest land were designated as reserved and protected forests and brought under state forest departments.