India's forest policy mandates bringing 20% land under forest cover with the view to having total 30% area under forest cover, and Haryana only has 3.9% (1,584 km2) land under forest cover, which was further reduced by 79.44 km2 between 2014-15 and 2016-17 due to diversion of forest land to other uses. Main forest cover lies in Sivalik Hills Range in northeast and Aravalli Hills Range in south of Haryana.