Peshawar October 16 (Online): The KP government has given approval for creation of 1,054 new vacancies in the Forest and Environment Department.
The purpose of the new hiring is to enhance the department’s overall working capacity and ensure the protection of forests acres in the province.
Out of the total vacancies, 687 vacancies are for settled districts and 367 for Newly Merged Districts (NMDs).
Similarly, raising of a Special Forest Squad has also been approved to further strengthen the forest check posts across the province, and work is in progress to equip these forests check posts with CCTV cameras and other technological gadgets to enable them effectively curb the illegal transportation of timber.
This was told in a meeting of the Forest Department with Chief Minister Mahmood Khan in Peshawar.
The meeting reviewed the overall performance of the department with special focus on the measures to increase forest acres and their protection in the province.
Provincial Minister for Forests Ishtiaq Urmar, Principal Secretary to Chief Minister Amjad Ali, Secretary Forest Islam Zeb and other concerned officials attended the meeting.
\Briefing the meeting on the progress made on the decisions taken in the previous meeting, it was informed that a comprehensive plan has been prepared for better and efficient management of pine nut forests in Chitral and other parts of the province as well as for its value addition and marketing.
It was further informed that apart from the 10 Billion Tree Tsunami Project, work is underway to prepare an Integrated Natural Resource Management Plan for other ecological zones of the province adding that a preliminary draft of ecotourism policy has been prepared while ecotourism activities have also been included in the forest management plans.
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