¹[17B.  Grants of permit for special purposes.-- The Chief Wild Life Warden may, with the previous permission of the State Government, grant to any person a permit to pick, uproot, acquire or collect from a forest land or the area specified under section 17A or transport, subject to such conditions as may be specified therein, any specified plant for the purpose of--

   (a)  education;

   (b)  scientific research;

   (c)  collection, preservation and display in a herbarium of any scientific institution; or

   (d)  propagation by a person or an institution approved by the Central Government in this regard.]