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  • 25 thousand fine imposed on forest officers, information not given under RTI

    25 thousand fine imposed on forest officers, information not given under RTI

    Manendragarh. Making fun of RTE became heavy for the officers of the Forest Department. Actually, RTI activist Ashok Srivastava of Manendragarh had imposed RTI. Forest officials have been fined for not giving information. According to the information received, Manendragarh’s RTI activist Ashok Srivastava had sought information from the Forest Department officials regarding the work and payment of the Campa item.

    On not getting a reply, he reported the matter to State Information Commissioner Dhanvendra Jaiswal. After this, while taking action, he imposed a fine of Rs. Since this action, there has been a stir among the officers ignoring the Right to Information Act. At the same time, the State Information Commissioner has directed to give information within 30 days.

  • Forest officer recovered 5 thousand from phone pay, SDO gave instructions for investigation

    Forest officer recovered 5 thousand from phone pay, SDO gave instructions for investigation

    Balrampur. The forest officer ordered a pick-up vehicle loaded with wood from the border of Chhattisgarh to go to Uttar Pradesh for Rs 5,000 on the phone of his close friend. Actually, the matter is of Dhanwar border check post under Vadrafnagar forest range of Balrampur Forest Division. Naka in-charge Jagdish Pal posted here has been given the responsibility of stopping illegal smuggling of forest resources.

    In the matter, SDO Forest Department Anil Paikra said that the information was received through the media. Nilgiri chiran has been told to be transported by the forest personnel posted at the block. The matter of taking money is also coming to the fore, which will be investigated. If the allegation is proved, the matter will be sent to the higher authorities for appropriate action. The thing to be seen here is that the way the in-charge sent the vehicle on payment, many vehicles leave from here during the day, in which most of the vehicles are engaged in illegal transport. If this continues, then such corrupt people will leave the vehicles without taking money.

  • Flying squirrel found in truck, forest department did rescue

    Flying squirrel found in truck, forest department did rescue

    Korba. Another name has been added to the achievement of the district with King Cobra. Rare flying squirrel has been seen here. It is not known from where the flying squirrel came because it was found in a truck. The forest department has left him in a safe forest.

    In the residential area of Transport Nagar, truck drivers saw a strange creature in the truck. which they could not recognise. The creature was also very scared because of coming from somewhere far away. In no time a crowd of people gathered. Meanwhile, someone informed the wildlife conservation team of the forest department.

    The Forest Department team reached the spot and identified the unique creature. The forest department team told that it is a flying squirrel. Which is found in rare form. After this the team caught him and left him in a safe forest.

  • Beware of misleading news regarding forest guard recruitment

    Beware of misleading news regarding forest guard recruitment

    Raipur. Candidates have been appealed to beware of the misleading video being circulated on social media regarding recruitment in Forest Department. All the participants have been assured by the Forest Department that the recruitment process for the post of Forest Guard is being conducted in a completely fair and transparent manner. After the physical test of the candidates, the written test will be done through Vyapam. The final selection of Forest Guard will be done on the basis of the examination.

    Forest Minister Mohammad Akbar has given instructions for strict action after coming to the notice of misleading news regarding the recruitment of forest guard in the social media. On his instructions, the range officer of Forest Division Raipur has registered an FIR in this regard at Telibandha Raipur police station. Along with this, the Forest Department has also appealed to the candidates not to fall prey to any misleading rumors and conspiracy of anti-social elements. Apart from this, on receipt of all such misleading rumors and information, it has been asked to register a complaint in the concerned police station immediately.

    It is worth noting that misleading videos were being circulated in the social media from June 15, 2023, regarding the demand of money by Mangalam Services Shubham Corporate for the post of forest guard, saying that he would be recruited in the forest department.

  • Forest department seized valuable sal and mixed wood chiran

    Forest department seized valuable sal and mixed wood chiran

    Raipur. Under the direction of Forest Minister Mohammad Akbar, continuous action is being taken by the Forest Department to prevent forest crimes, illegal collection and transportation of wood. In this sequence, 129 pieces of Chiran and a saw machine of mixed species were illegally kept in Khamharia village of Katghora forest division.

    On the basis of the information of the informer, the flying squad team formed on the instructions of Forest Officer Katghora Forest Division Premlata Yadav raided the action. In the action taken by the team, 129 pieces of mixed species chiran and a saw machine were found from Soukhi Lal and Pramod’s bari of village Khamharia, whose valid documents were not with the collector. The flying squad team has registered a forest crime case and the matter has been taken into consideration.

  • Forest department took action in case of illegal hunting of chital

    Forest department took action in case of illegal hunting of chital

    Dhamtari. Taking action in the case of illegal hunting of wild animal chital, the forest department has sent 10 accused to jail. Arrows and bows have been recovered from the possession of the accused. The matter pertains to village Kantakuriardih area under forest range Kerengaon. According to the information, the villagers hunted Chital who reached near the school premises of Kantakuriardih while wandering through the forest. After getting information about the case, Bharat Lal Verma and his team, under the guidance of Dhamtari DFO Mayank Pandey and under the direction of Dhamtari SDO TR Verma, under the leadership of Circle Officer Kerengaon, issued a search warrant and arrested 10 accused for poaching chital. sent to jail.

    Among the arrested accused, the accused were Johar Singh vld Nandlal Kamar (33 years), Bhuvan vld Chamra Kamar (35 years), Birender vld Nandlal Kamar (24 years), Puranik vld Shyamlal Kamar (28 years), Maniram vld Nohru Ram Kumar (25 years) years), Radhe Lal vld Panchu Ram Kamar (18 years), Chait Ram vld Rati Ram Kamar (30 years), Anand vld Banarasi Lal Kamar (19 years), Kishan vld Shivlal Kamar (25 years) and Durgesh vld Punrad Kamar (19 years) Years) All the residents of village Barabandha (Bagbuda Para) are included. Action was taken against the accused under sections 9 and 50 and 51, 52 of POR number 1487/13 Wildlife Protection Act 1972. 3 bows and 4 arrows were seized from the accused.

  • Big fraud exposed, 20 lakh rupees were taken in the name of providing job

    Big fraud exposed, 20 lakh rupees were taken in the name of providing job

    Manendragarh-Chirmiri-Bharatpur. In Chhattisgarh’s Manendragarh district, a big fraud has been exposed in the name of providing jobs in the forest department. Police has arrested two accused in the cheating case. The accused have cheated the youth of more than Rs 20 lakh in many districts of the state in the name of getting them jobs in the Forest Department. This case is related to City Kotwali police station area.

    Disclosing the fraud case in the name of job, SDOP Manendragarh Rakesh Kurre said that a young man came to Manendragarh Kotwali and lodged a report to the effect that Praveen Pradhan, resident of Dongri Pali police station Basna district Mahasamund and Ramnivas, in the name of getting a job in the forest department Jhagkhand, a resident of Sen, has taken Rs 2 lakh 35 thousand. On the complaint of the applicant, the police registered the crime in the police station and took both the accused into custody. After which both were interrogated. During interrogation, the accused told that apart from many youths of Manendragarh, he had committed fraud in many districts including Gorela Pendra. The youth have been cheated of about 20 lakh rupees in the name of jobs.

  • Odisha CM reviews activities of Forest Department

    Odisha CM reviews activities of Forest Department

    Bhubaneswar: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik reviewed the achievements of the major projects of the Forest, Environment and Climate Change Department of the last four years in the 3rd floor Conference Hall of Lokaseva Bhawan today.

    After the review meeting Forest, Environment and Climate Change Minister Pradip Kumar Amat said that under the State Government Manifesto-2019 commitment, 49 eco-tourism sites have been developed and made operational and 6 more new sites are under pipeline. Local communities of 650 villages of the state have been directly involved in the said projects in which annual revenue generation of 13 crore rupees has been made possible.

    Under 5T charters the Department has done amendment of Odisha Forest Department code, development of eco-tourism, development of natural parks in Bharatpur and Chandka sanctuaries, prevention of human-elephant conflict, crackdown on single use of plastic, establishment of 14000 hectares land bank etc. have been successfully completed, stated Minister Amat.

    The Department has successfully implemented major projects and increased 537 square km of forest cover and 356 square km of tree cover in the State which increased in the forest cover of 33.5% and the tree cover of 36.71% of the total geographically area of the State and ranks 3rd and 2nd respectively in the entire Country. Also, Odisha has ranked the first place due to the increase of Mangrove forest of 8 square km in the entire country, he informed.

    As a successful implementation of the afforestation program, a total of 371,163 hectares of plantation has been done in the state including 16,346 running km of Avenue Plantation and during this time 14.4 crore saplings have been planted and 11.04 crore saplings distributed.

    A total of 61,204 square km area of the state has been surveyed under Geo-referencing with the joint efforts of the Forest and Revenue Department. Till today, a re-notification of 265 forest blocks have been issued. Our State stands first in the country for such Geo-referencing survey.

    As many as 820 families have been voluntarily relocated from the areas of National Park and sanctuaries by providing an additional grant of Rs 5.00 lakhs over and above the provisions of NTCA guidelines in which the Shimilipal Tiger Project of the state has been placed in the Excellent Category of the country.

    With the orders of the Chief Minister, the amount of compensation for the victims of human-wildlife conflict has been increased significantly. It has been notified for compassionate grant Rs 6.00 lakhs for human kill, Rs 1.5 lakhs for less than 60% of physical injured, Rs 2.5 lakhs for more than 60% of physical injured, Rs 5000 to 10,000 for treatment of the injured. Besides, Rs.37,500 for death of cow, Rs.32,000 for death of ox/bull, from Rs 20,000 to Rs 25,000 per acre for crop damage, allotment of Biju Pakka Ghara or equivalent + Rs.20,000 additional amount for full damage house and Rs 10,000 for partially damaged house.

    Very recently, as per the kind announcement of the Chief Minister, Odisha, a Notification has been issued to provide assistance amounting to Rs.194 crore to the Kendu Leaf beneficiaries which has been benefited 7.75 lakhs kendu Leaf pluckers and 40,000 binders and seasonal staff. Total financial support in the 2022 crop year is a record amount of Rs 194 crore.

    In the financial year 2023-24, a new scheme namely “Mukhyamantri Kendu Leaf Welfare Fund with a budgetary provision of Rs.50 crore has been introduced to reimburse the cost due to imposition of GST on Kendu Leaf trade.

    Odisha Forest Development Society (OFSDS) has implemented Ama Jungle Yojana (AJY), Odisha Forestry Sector Development Project-II, OMBADC Livelihood Development Project, etc.

    Under the said project, 6016 Vana Surakhya Samiti (VSS), 21273 Self Help Groups (SHG) and CIGs are working and are sustaining their livelihood.

    Odisha Biodiversity Board has been established and already 7256 numbers of Biodiversity Committees have been formed at Gram Panchayat level. In the year 2022-23, Mahendragiri and Gandhamardan hill have been declared as Biodiversity Heritage Sites.

    Further, Kenduleaf ex-gratia sanctioned is record high in a Kenduleaf crop year. The convergence of other Development schemes with Ama Jungle Yojana other departments is commendable. Department proactively facilitating developmental projects duly ensuring mitigative measures, expressed Shri Amat in the Press Conference.

    As per Chief Minister direction, Bhitarkanika, Chilika, Similipal, Chandaka and Bharatpur wildlife sanctuary to be developed with visible improvement with best wildlife sites and tourists destinations. Adequate ongoing efforts to develop Nandankanan Zoological Park as a world class zoo. Eco-tourism to be developed further with community involvement. With the own cost, the State Government will do population estimation of tiger and elephant in the Odisha, signed off Minister Amat.

    Additional Chief Secretary Satyabrata Sahu, PCCF and Head of Forest Force Debidutta Biswal, PCCF (Wildlife) Sushil Kumar Popli, PCCF (Kenduleaf) Pushajule Mecro answered the questions of the journalists in the Press Conference.

  • Forest department employees taking salary without work, burning forest

    Forest department employees taking salary without work, burning forest

    Surajpur. As the temperature of the weather increases, the incidents of fire in the forests have started increasing. Dense forests are being destroyed due to fire in the forest, while many types of animals are being killed. Large animals are moving towards residential areas, due to which the danger to humans has also increased. All the claims of the Forest Department are proving hollow. High flames are seen in the pictures, black smoke shadowing the sky.. This is the view of Darhora village of Pratappur forest test area of Surajpur.

    This dense forest is adjacent to the village, where suddenly for some reason a fire broke out in the forest. The fire raged for many hours, green trees kept burning to ashes, but no employee or officer of the Forest Department even bothered to reach the spot. After about 5 hours, two villagers were sent to the forest by the fire watcher to extinguish the fire. The villagers told that the fire watcher had gone to visit his relative. That’s why he has come to extinguish the fire. The question is that how can a common villager extinguish such a fierce fire and who will be responsible if an accident happens during this time?? Dense forests are getting destroyed due to fire and the forest department is sleeping peacefully.

  • Arikomban is 10 km away from the free space, under the supervision of the forest department

    Arikomban is 10 km away from the free space, under the supervision of the forest department

    IDUKKI: Arikomban has been spotted on the Kerala-Tamil Nadu border. It is hinted that the rogue tusker is 10 kilometers away from the place where it was released by the forest department in Periyar Wildlife sanctuary. The last signals received says that he is travelling back.
    If Arikomban reaches Vannathipara area, it is five kilometers away from the populated area of Tamil Nadu. The Tamil Nadu Forest Department is closely monitoring the possibility of the elephant crossing the border.A special task force of the forest department captured Arikomban after tranquilizing it on last Saturday. The tusker was released to the Periyar Tiger Reserve early Sunday morning. The tusker was released near Senioroda, 23 km from the inhabited area of Kumily.