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Guwahati, Dec 22 : The All India Forest Officers Federation and Assam Forest Employee Association had recently met Union Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change Dr Harsh Vardhan in New Delhi.
The delegation team of the both organisation had submitted a memorandum to the Union minister about the wildlife related problems and forest employee related problems.
The delegation team of Assam Forest Employee Association led by its president Rajen Saikia had also submitted a memorandum to the Union minister and urging to establish a forest cantonment in Assam’s Kaziranga National Park.
“Kaziranga National Park, a world heritage site, is a home of more than 2500 one horned rhinoceros and around 1500 frontline forest employee are engaged in the park to protect the animals including rhinos. But the frontline staff have faced lot of problems. So we urged to the Union minister to take necessary action to set up a forest cantonment in Kaziranga National Park for the frontline staff, where their families can be accommodated along with education and health facilities,” Rajen Saikia said.
Rajen Saikia further said that, various issues related with the forest employee were also discussed with the Union minister.
On the other hand, a meeting of all states associations, organisations of forest department with the Director General of Forest and Secretary of Ministry of Environment and Climate Change was held at Paryawan Bhawan in New Delhi on December 20.
The officials and members of near about 15 states forest employee associations including Assam, Madhya Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Karnataka, Punjab, Uttarakhand, West Bengal, Maharashtra, Haryana, Mizoram, Uttar Pradesh were present in the meeting.
The Director General of Forests and other top officials of the Union government had assured to solve the problems of the forest employees.
