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| 2072 cases of damages to forests booked in 10 years | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Aug 22- The Government is contemplating to frame recruitment rules for Forest Protection Force and reorganize it to make a vital organ of the Forest Department to firmly deal with the timber smugglers.
Replying to supplementaries to a question of Mohammed Ashraf Ganai in the Legislative Assembly today the Minister for Forests and Environment, Mian Altaf Ahmad said that the rules would be framed within next months. He said the Government is ready to open new Forest Protection Units in uncovered areas to check forest smuggling.
For this purpose, the Forest Department would be reorganized the Minister said adding that a Gamma Unit of a Forest Protection Force has already been set up at Doabgah, about 10 kms away from Zainagair. Besides Gamma Unit, K-06 Natnusa, Kupwara has already been established in Kamraj Forest Division and there is no Gamma Unit in one territorial Forest Division adding each Forest Protection Force Gamma Unit comprises 55 men especially recruited and trained for the job.
He said the department has taken cognizance of the damages caused to forest due to smuggling and has duly assessed quantum of damages during last decade (1999 till date). It has also registered 2072 damage cases during the decade, out of above referred cases, 122 have been registered with the police and 227 have been challenged in the Court of Law, he said and added that in addition to above, dossiers have been framed against the notorious timber smugglers and referred to the District Magistrate concerned for detention of the culprits under the Public Safety Act.
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