law: Indian Forest Act, 1927
  35.  Protection of forests for special purposes . –
  (1) The State Government may, by notification
  
  in the Official Gazette, regulate or prohibit in any forest or waste land -
  a) the breaking up or
  
  clearing of land for cultivation;
  b) the pasturing of
  
  cattle; or
  c) the firing or
  
  clearing of the vegetation;
  when such regulation or prohibition appears necessary for any of
  
  the following purposes:-
  ( i ) for protection against storms,
  
  winds, rolling stones, floods and avalanches;
  (ii) for the preservation of the soil on the ridges and slopes
  
  and in the valleys of hilly tracts, the prevention of landslips or of the
  
  formation of ravines, and torrents, or the protection of land against erosion,
  
  or the deposit thereon of sand, stones or gravel;
  (iii) for the maintenance of a water-supply in springs, rivers
  
  and tanks;
  (iv) for the protection of roads, bridges, railways and other
  
  lines of communication;
  (v) for the preservation of the public health.
  (2) The State Government may, for any such
  
  purpose, construct at its own expense, in or upon any forest or waste-land,
  
  such work as it thinks fit.
  (3) No notification shall be made under
  
  sub-section (1) nor shall any work be begun under sub-section (2), until after
  
  the issue of a notice to the owner of such forest or land calling on him to
  
  show cause, within a reasonable period to be specified in such notice, why such
  
  notification should not be made or work constructed, as the case may be, and
  
  until his objections, if any, and any evidence he may produce in support of the
  
  same, have been heard by an officer duly appointed in that behalf and have been
  
  considered by the State Government.