KV News

CAMPA EC reviews ongoing works, discusses preparation of APO for FY 2023-24

Decrease Font Size Increase Font Size Text Size Print This Page

JAMMU: A meeting of the Executive Committee (EC) of CAMPA was held on Thursday in Convention Centre Jammu to review ongoing works and discuss preparation of APO for FY 2023-24.
PCCF and Head of Forest Force J&K Forest Department Dr. Mohit Gera briefed the meeting about ongoing activities of the forest department on rehabilitation of degraded forests and afforestation under “Green J&K Drive.”
He also apprised on various new initiatives of the department including the State Action Plan for forest fire management.
He said that CAMPA was playing a key role in greening J&K, Wildlife management, biodiversity conservation, and infrastructure development for frontline staff.
He further informed the Committee that for the current financial year, detailed site- specific plan along with their location maps for rehabilitation of a total of 15000 ha of degraded forest area with planting of about 95.00 Lakh plants were prepared last year using CAMPA portal.
The plan has been approved by the National Authority, Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change and is under implementation.
He also informed that J&K CAMPA is the only State Authority in the country which has developed this kind of portal.
CEO CAMPA Sarvesh Rai apprised the committee about the ongoing activities of CAMPA, physical and financial achievements during the last financial year and ongoing works of the current financial year. The committee was apprised that during the Monsoon season, 22.45 Lakh plants have been planted.
Notably, the Wildlife Protection Department is executing measures which include improvement of wildlife habitat, soil and water conservation works, maintenance of animal rescue centres, eco-development activities and development of wildlife related infrastructure.
The department is also implementing a special project “Mitigation Plan for Kishtwar High Altitude National Park (KHANP).”
The committee was apprised about the status of the third-party monitoring of CAMPA works for the last three years from 2019-20 to 2021-22.
AFC India Limited has been engaged by CAMPA Secretariat to evaluate at least 30 percent of the randomly selected works executed in the last three years.
CAMPA secretariat presented before the committee its annual report for FY 2019-20, 2020-21 and 2021-22 giving details, interalia, of location-wise works executed in the relevant year.
The committee scrutinized special projects for eco-restoration of forest areas around Patnitop – Nathatop (Sanasar) road and protection of forests around Dera Ki Gali (DKG) forests and recommended, with some modifications, for approval of the steering committee of CAMPA.

 

 


KV News

Kashmir Vision cover all daily updates for the newspaper

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *