Chamba, Himachal Pradesh

Partly Scheduled AreaCensus 2011 district code 23

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5 Oct 2026 · Details soughtAdditional details soughtExtraction of sand, stone & bajri from Khasra No. 2 measuring 32-08 bighas (Govt. Land, Riverbed), falling…
5 Oct 2026 · Details soughtAdditional details soughtMedium Irrigation Project namely “Phina Singh Multipurpose project” in Tehsil Nurpur District Kangra, H.P.…
25 Sept 2026 · DecidedTerms of Reference grantedExtraction of Sand, Stone & Bajri from Chakki River (Barla-II) Part-I, measuring 61-03-00 Bighas…
25 Sept 2026 · DecidedTerms of Reference grantedExtraction of Sand, Stone & Bajri from Chakki River (Barla-I) Part-I, measuring 59-16-00 Bighas (04-83-95…
25 Sept 2026 · DecidedTerms of Reference grantedExtraction of Sand, Stone & Bajri from Chakki River (Barla-II) Part-II, measuring 52-14-00 Bighas…
25 Sept 2026 · DecidedTerms of Reference grantedExtraction of Sand, Stone & Bajri from Chakki River (Barla-I) Part-II, measuring 50-04-15 Bighas (04-06-32…
25 Sept 2026 · DecidedEnvironmental clearance grantedExtraction of Sand, Stone & Bajri from auctioned quarry of Hatli Khad, measuring 11-10-00 Bighas (00-93-07…
4 Sept 2026 · FiledSubmittedExtraction of sand, stone & bajri from Khasra No. 2 measuring 32-08 bighas (Govt. Land, Riverbed), falling…

Dated by the portal's own appraisal history, converted to India Standard Time; a proposal with no recorded history appears on its register submission date.

Other clearances these proposals declare

Forest land diversion declared: 6
Forest land sought for diversion: 6 ha
Wildlife board recommendation declared: 0
In or near a protected area: 0
In an eco-sensitive zone: 0

These counts are taken from the application forms of the 24 of 24 proposals naming this district whose forms have been read for these questions. In 15 of those forms at least one question was left blank, and a blank answer is counted as unknown. The forest area is the area stated for forest clearance, with each forest proposal counted once, in the district where its project is primarily sited.

Proposals naming this district: 24
Category A proposals: 1
Families declared displaced: 4
Families declared affected: 165

Displacement figures are the proponents’ own declarations. A project sited across several districts declares one figure for the whole project, and that figure is counted once, in the district where the project is primarily sited.

Fifth Schedule status

Partly within a Fifth Schedule Scheduled Area

The Order fixes the area by reference to territorial divisions as existing at 21 November 1975. It names only part of this district, so district-level status cannot settle whether a particular site is inside it.

OrderThe Scheduled Areas (Himachal Pradesh) Order, 1975 · C.O. 102, notified 1975-11-21

What the record shows

The Scheduled Tribe share here, 26.1%, is at least double the national figure of 8.55%.
Part of this district is a Fifth Schedule Scheduled Area. Acquiring land for a project sited in that part needs the Gram Sabha's prior consent under section 41(3) of RFCTLARR, and the district-level record cannot settle whether a particular site lies there.
Applicants for projects sited mainly in this district have declared 4 families to be displaced. The figure comes from their applications, and we have not verified it.

Each of these observations appears when a fixed rule is met by the figures on this page, so the same figures always give the same sentences. None of them is a view on whether a project should go ahead.

Who lives there

Figures from Census 2011, each compared with the all-India value computed on the same definition.

Total population: 5,19,080
Households: 1,02,460
Average household size: 5.07; 0.22 above India's 4.85India
Scheduled Tribe share of population: 26.1%; 17.6 points above IndiaIndia
Scheduled Caste share of population: 21.5%; 4.9 points above IndiaIndia
Children aged 0-6: 13.6%; level with IndiaIndia
Literacy rate: 72.2%; 0.8 points below IndiaIndia
Sex ratio: 986; 43.8 above India's 942.6India

What they live on

How the district's workers earn a living, from Census 2011. The land-dependent share counts cultivators and agricultural labourers as a share of all workers, and it is the group most directly affected when land is acquired.

Total workers: 2,94,035
Work participation rate: 56.7%; 16.9 points above IndiaIndia
Workers dependent on land: 70.0%; 15.5 points above IndiaIndia
Cultivators: 66.9%; 42.3 points above IndiaIndia
Agricultural labourers: 3.1%; 26.8 points below IndiaIndia
Marginal workers: 59.3%; 34.6 points above IndiaIndia
Household industry workers: 1.5%; 2.3 points below IndiaIndia

How households live

Land, income and work among rural households, from the Socio Economic and Caste Census 2011, which recorded these where the population census did not. Only the survey's rural part is used here, so urban households do not appear.

Rural households owning land: 85.1%; 39.0 points above IndiaIndia
The India figure is computed from 614 of 640 districts, because the source table has no value for the others.
Rural households whose highest earner makes over ₹5,000 a month: 31.5%; 7.1 points above IndiaIndia
The India figure is computed from 614 of 640 districts, because the source table has no value for the others.
Rural households living mainly on manual casual labour: 18.7%; 33.1 points below IndiaIndia
The India figure is computed from 614 of 640 districts, because the source table has no value for the others.
Rural households with a salaried member: 27.6%; 19.3 points above IndiaIndia
The India figure is computed from 614 of 640 districts, because the source table has no value for the others.

When these were filed

Each proposal is dated by the first step in its appraisal history, the dated record of steps the portal keeps for it.

2024-Q22026-Q3

The timeline counts 23 of the 24 proposals here. The first filing date comes from each proposal's appraisal history, and we have not yet read it for the other 1, so they are left out. Most of them are older proposals, so the early part of the timeline undercounts what was filed then. The register itself records a date for each of them; the gap is in our copy of the histories.

Hatched columns undercount, so they cannot be compared with solid ones.

What kind of projects these are

The proposals naming this district, grouped by the sector each was filed under.

Non-Coal Mining 91.7%
River Valley and Hydroelectric Projects 8.3%

The four largest sectors are shown by name and the rest are grouped as Other.

What is proposed here

These are the proposals in the national environmental clearance register whose application names a site in this district, newest first. A project with sites in several districts appears under each of them.

All 24 proposals that name this district, newest first.

Showing the first 24 of 24 proposals. The rest load in the browser, and with scripting turned off they can be read from himachal-pradesh.json under /data/instruments/consent/projects/.