Foresters begin training on Sustainable Forest Management

GANGTOK, 19 Nov: A 5-day training on “Sustainable Forest Management – Need and Importance”, is being organized by the JICA-assisted Sikkim Biodiversity Conservation & Forest Management at the Forest Department conference hall here. The training began on Monday, 18 November.
The training is being offered to select Divisional Forest Officers, Assistant Conservator of Forests, Range Officers, Block Officers, Survey experts of SBFP, JRFs, Survey Assistants, GIS Engineers, Community Organizers and NGOs, an official press communiqué informs.
The Indian Institute of Forest Management, Bhopal, is the resource agency for the training with Dr. Ram Prakash, retired Principal Chief Conservator of Forest, Government of Madhya Pradesh, AK Patil Professor IIFM, and MD Om Prakash, Professor IIFM, as resource persons.
Project Director-cum-Special PCCF, SBFP, SBS Bhadauria, in his opening remarks on the inaugural day stressed on the importance of taking the training seriously and gave a brief on the state of Sikkim’s forests and importance of forests to the people here.
Dr. Ram Prakash was present as chief guest for the inaugural session and commented that Sikkim has developed very well. The state is clean, well maintained and the people are well disciplined, he remarked as he went on to advise that all forest officers should work hard and be innovative.