Odisha becomes first in growth rate of mangrove forest
Published By : Lelin Mallick | January 13, 2022 10:00 PM
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Bhubaneswar, Jan 13: The investment in Ama Jungle Yojana ( AJY) and Joint Forest Management ( JFM) has yielded its dividend for Odisha with net increase of dense forest area by 243 sq kms during last two years as per India State of Forest Report (ISFR)-2021. Odisha also became first in the rate of increase in Mangrove forest, and third in Forest rich Tiger Reserve. This was known the State level Steering Committee Authority of CAMPA held under Chairmanship of Chief Secretary Suresh Chandra Mahapatra on digital mode from Lokseba Bhawan conference hall today wherein Additional Chief Secretary Dr Mona Sharma outlined the issues for discussion. While complementing the department for these achievements, the Chief Secretary directed the department to focus of the preventive fire protection. Sri Mahapatra said “As forest fire creates devastation to a large number of plant and animal life, the field officials must remain extremely vigilant to check the outbreak and spread of the fire. He directed the DFOs and field level forest officers to have more fire-break lines in the forest and keep those clean for checking spread of the fire. They were also asked to ensure active involvement of the local community in this task. Further, Mahaptra directed to raise the seedlings through WSHGs. It was decided that the WSHGs would grow 18 month old seedlings which would be used for plantation under different forestry prgrammes. Department was also asked to increase the area under silk plantation as these trees supported the livelihood activities of many forest dependent families. Additional Chief Secretary Forest and Environment Dr Sharma appraised that as per as per ISFR-2021, the very dense forest in Odisha was 7213 sq km with additional increase of 243 sq km during last two years. Similarly, the State also became first in the growth rate of mangrove forest with additional increase of 8 square kms taking the total to 259 sq kms. Maharashtra became 2nd with additional increase of around 4 sq kms followed by Karnataka with increase of around 3 sq kms. Similipal reserve forest also became third in Forest rich Tiger Reserve. She added that around 10,000 women self help groups (WSHGs) and VSS would be involved in forest activities during the annual action plan period of 2022-23. The Committee deliberated and approved the APO of around Rs.1241 cr under CAMPA for the year 2022-23. The principal activities of the APO included compensatory afforestation, wild life management, improvement of wild life habitat, new plantation, maintenance of old plantation, silvi cultural operation, silk plantation, soil and moisture conservation, forest conservation, fire protection, infrastructural support to front line workers, and application of IT and GIS methods in forest management. Secretary IT Manoj Kumar Mishra said that DFO offices would be connected through OSWAN network.
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