Section 37. Biodiversity heritage sites.

1[(1) Without prejudice to any other law for the time being in force, based on the recommendations of the State Biodiversity Board, the State Government may, from time to time, notify in the Official Gazette, areas of biodiversity importance as biodiversity heritage sites under this Act: Provided that the State Biodiversity Board shall consult the local body and the Biodiversity Management Committee concerned before making such recommendations.] (2) The State Government, in consultation with the Central Government, may frame rules for the management and conservation of all the 2[biodiversity heritage sites]. (3) The State Government shall frame schemes for compensating or rehabilitating any person or section of people economically affected by such notification.