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| Altaf stresses on sensitizing civil society about environment conservation | | | Early Times Report
jammu, May 8:Minister for Forests & Environment, Main Altaf Ahmad, on Wednesday exhorted upon the officers to sensitize the society about the significance of environment conservation besides ensuring people participation in Projects envisaging green Jammu.
The Minister was taking a review of functioning of forest department in Jammu Province.
“The department is taking various innovative measures aimed at making Jammu a green and clean city”, the Minister maintained.
The Minister asked the concerned officers to raise massive awareness among the people about the importance of protecting our forests for posterity. He also asked them to educate the people about the department schemes meant for maintaining and promoting green wealth of the state and encourage them to plant trees in their areas.
The Minister, while reviewing the functioning of the department, asked the officers to ensure that strategic plans are chalked out on time to check forest fire incidents during summer season and minimize losses during any such incident. He also stressed on improving synergy among various wings of the departments to minimize the man animal conflicts and check loss of human life and livestock
He asked the officers to identify the critical areas and ensure all measures including sensitizing the general masses about the preventive measures to be taken in these incident prone areas.
The Minister asked the concerned officers to ensure adequate deployment of forest protection force and other field functionaries adding that people should also be kept abreast about the control rooms so that they can seek help during any such incidence so that losses can be minimized
Reviewing the timber stock, the Minister stressed that timber targets should be achieved by November and the efforts should be made to keep the process of timber distribution fair and transparent. The progress of Infrastructural development and protection scenario was also discussed.
The Minister also reviewed the initiatives of Pollution Control Board and asked the concerned officers to ensure proper implementation of ban on polythene and keep a check on biomedical wastes from health institutions .He said proper vigil and monitoring is vital to check that the industrial units are adequately equipped according to the set parameters and guidelines to reduce environmental pollution.
He also reviewed the performance of Social Forestry and research wings and asked the concerned to ensure that the needs of the people are fulfilled and resources are optimally utilized. |
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