SRINAGAR: Chief Conservator of Forests, Kashmir, Farooq Gillani today conducted tour of South Kashmir to review the progress of ongoing developmental works taken up by the Forest Department in South Kashmir. The CCF convened a review meeting at Forest Headquarter Bijbehara which was attended by Conservator of Forests, South Circle Wild Life Warden - South, DFOs Anantnag, Lidder, Kulgam, Awantipora, Shopian Forest Divisions, Deputy Director Forest Protection Force, Divisional Manager SFC Extraction Division Anantnag and DFO Social Forestry Division, Anantnag.
The meeting was informed that around 6.81 lakh plants of different species are being planted over an area of 616 hectares of forest land in the Forest Divisions of South Kashmir including Anantnag, Shopian, Kulgam, Awantipora and Lidder during current fiscal. It was also given out that 5000 Plants of different species have been planted so far by the Forest Department South Circle in collaboration with various educational institutions and local youth.
During the inspection of Construction work of Divisional Office Complex Khanabal, the DFO Anantnag was directed speed up the work on the project to ensure its timely completion. DFO’s and DM’s of SFC were asked to complete the process so that timely extraction of timber is done by the State Forest Corporation. The forest protection scenario of the South Circle was also discussed in the meeting and instructions were passed to DFO’s of South Circle and other officers of allied wings of the Department to tackle the incidents of forest damages in the vulnerable areas of Mattan, Kuthar, Shopian and Daksum on priority.