Forestry in Wardha Dist

Conservation of Forest in Wardha District

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Area of Forest	Forest Products	Forest Development Program
Population, their demands & traditional requirement	Saint Tukaram Van Gram Yojana	Habitual Offenders
Classification of Beats	Preventive & Protective Measures	Check Post
Control room	Wireless Net Work	Staff Position in Office

Area of Forest

The area under the Forest is 972 Sq. Km. i.e. the district has 15.40% of its Geographical area under the Forest Cover. Status wise break up of the Forest area is as under.

Reserved Forests - : 499.29 sq.km.
Protected Forests - : 316.82 sq.km.
Zudpi Jungle -: 153.40 sq.km.
Private forest -: 2.49 Sq. km

Major part of the forest is in Arvi, Karanja, Ashti, Wardha and Seloo Tahasil at North part of the district. The un-analysed areas which is 50 % of the total forest area, comes under the Revenue department. Reserved area which is 33 % where as Conservative area which is only 17 % comes under the supervision of forest department.

Rangewise and Categaorywise Distribution of Forests Area (in Sq.Km.)is a below:

Sr.No.	Range	Rounds	Beats	R.F.	P.F.	(Zudpi Jungles)	Total
1	Karanja	6	30	92.2631	36.9045	16.60	145.7676
2	Arvi	5	27	89.9917	42.9785	13.27	146.2402
3	Ashti	5	26	51.4704	75.7866	9.76	137.017
4	Hingani	6	32	75.2133	46.2254	14.21	135.6487
5	Wardha	4	17	-	0.8204	55.54	56.3604
6	Talegaon	5	21	65.6576	37.3675	14.32	119.3451
7	Samudrapur	4	18	45.5089	11.7446	27.31	84.5635
8	Karanja	5	27	79.1852	61.6583	2.40	143.2435
Total		40	198	499.2902	313.4858	153.41	966.1700
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Forest Products

Fine quality of Sagwan trees are found in Arvi and Hingani subrange of forest. Inspite of that, forest generally contains Dhawada, Salai, Tendu and Mawai trees. In forest Pen, Kalamb, Palas, Moha, Behada etc plants are also available. Forest land cultivates few major types of grass such as Karad, Dhonad, Musham, Makhel and Sheng etc. In year 2007-08 Rs.13677041 are collected from forest product, out of this, Rs. 8752166 and Rs.12735 are collected from Timber and fire wood respectively.

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Forest Development Program

To protect the land from flood and water drainage due to heavy rain, and to maintain the land for cultivation purpose, forest plays the important role. In this direction, for forest development few schemes are implemented. Such as. 1) Central nursery constitution 2) Re-forestry of poor forest 3) Common forest scheme 4) Forest conservation, wild animal and nature conservation. etc.

Sr.No.	RANGE FOREST AREA	PLACE
1	Karanja	Amazari
2	Wardha	Wardha
3	Arvi	Sarangpur
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Population, their demands and traditional requirement

Wardha district comprises of 1379 villages having 12,30,640 (figure as per 2001 censes ) population which includes. The Cattle Population with Bulls and Cows 492217, Sheeps and goats 188118 and others 49474. Local villagers are meeting their requirements of fodder , Fuel and small timber for agricultural implements and house repairing from the adjoining forest area.

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Saint Tukaram Van Gram Yojana

This is a state government scheme for encouraging to people in development forest i.e., Afforestation, soil and water conservation, protection of forest fire ,wild animal conservation, prevention of illegal grazing, providing the water stock to animals and birds, involvement of women, optimum use forest fuel, public awareness in forest development. In this division, near about 1191 forest close village has been participated.191 Joint Forest Management and Forest Development Agency committees involved in this programme. According to State government of Maharashtra sanctioned order FDM 2005/ ltr. No.313/F-2 Dt.23/11/06, the JFM and FDA registered committee eligible for the Saint Tukaram van gram award. Near about 21 committees working in this scheme.

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Habitual Offenders

Ten Years back following areas were under the influence of so called Wood smuggler Samser because of this the incidences of illicit cutting by local villages were increased. Due to constant patrolling their activities had completely been stopped.

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Classification of Beats

No & Value of the illicitly felled trees, No. of Offences, fire incidences, grazing incidences & Poaching incidences are taken into account for identifying Hypersensitive, Sensitive & normal beats.

Statement Showing the Category of Hypersensitive / Sensitive beats :

RANGE	HYPER SENSITIVE	SENSITIVE BEATS	NORMAL BEATS	TOTAL BEATS
Arvi	4	10	23	37
Hingani	0	7	22	29
Ashti	2	8	24	34
Wardha	0	3	20	23
Karanja	0	4	15	20
Talegaon	1	1	11	13
Samudrapur	0	0	5	5
Kharagna	0	0	5	5
Total	7	32	125	166

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Preventive and Protective Measures

In Wardha Forest Division there are 142 beats. Out of these 6 are hypersensitive , 31 ara Sensitive & 105 are Normal. In addition to this Round Officer's are also inspecting once in 3 Months. The damages which are not reported by the Forest Guard shall be verified by the Round Officer by using his seizure hammer, he should report to Dy. Conservator of Forests, for further action.

Saw Mill Inspection
Forests Protection Committee
Inspection of Malki Cases
NakaBandi
Patrol Team
Record of Habitual Offender
Inspection of private Depots
Fire Protection
Surveillance in Consumption Center
Intelligence from Local villages
Publicity & Propaganda
Encroachment
MAPS

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Check Post

In Wardha Forest Division there are 18 check Nakas which are manned round the clock (24 hours) forest Guard and Vanmajdoors are posted to check the illegal transport of forest produce. Round officers are instructed to check Naka daily particularly during night times. Range Forest Officers and Asst. Conservator of Foresters are also instructed to visit the Naka's when on tour and should put this remark in the Naka Register.

Range-wise List of Check Naka's is as under.

Sr.No.	Range	Place
1	Wardha	Shivanfal
2	Hingni	Borkhedi
3	Arvi	Ulapur, Kharangana, Wadhona, Rohana, Bangadapur
4	Ashti	Talegaon, Nara, Ashti
5	Karanja	Junapani, Masod, Hetikundi, Rahati, Kamthi, Nagzari, Kinkidodaka

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Control room

Control room is erected all over the division for rapid communication.These control room stations are working for 24 hours. 1 Assistant conservator of Forest working as controlling officer, 3 forest guard working as operator. Peoples have been informed to controlled room against forest crime i.e. illegal cutting, illegal animal hunting, land encroachment, forest fire, illegal soil or murum digging.

Control room Number of Wardha Forest Division, Wardha is 957152251274

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Wireless Net Work

Wireless system is erected all over the Ranges & rounds for rapid communication. These wireless stations are working for 24 hours. There are 13 Base stations installed at Round & Range Head Quarters & 15 Hand sets are given to the subordinate officers & vehicles are well equipped with 08 Mobile Set Units.
Base station are located at different places of ranges as follows:

Sr.no.	Location	Controlling Officer
1	Wardha	RFO Wardha
2	Karanja	RFO Karanja
3	Arvi	RFO Arvi
4	Ashti	RFO Ashti
5	Hingani	RFO Hingani ( Prot.)
6	Bangdapur	R.O.Bangdapur ( N ) Karanja Range
7	Wadhona	R.O.Wadhona (N)
8	Talegaon	RFO.Talegaon
9	Kelzar	R.O. Kelzar
10	Girad	R.O.Girad
11	Borkhedi	R.O.Borkhedi
12	Nawargaon	R.O. Nawargaon
13	Kharagna	RFO.Khargana
14	Garpit	R.O.Garpit
15	Samudrapur	RFO

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Staff Position in Office

Existing field staff of various categories in for Conservation of Forest is as below.

Sr. No	Head of expenditure	RFOs	Foresters	Guards
1	Administration& protection	9	24	196
2	Fire & forest protection	1	1	5
3	Tendu	0	3	23
4	Timber	0	2	2
5	FLCS	1	13	3
6	EGS	1	3	4
Total		12	46	233

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Range wise RFO officers contact No.

Name of office	Office phone No.
RFO Ashti	07156-225646
RFO Arvi	07157-222102
RFO Karanja	07156-245873
RFO Talegaon	07156-236320
RFO Kharangna	07157-235465
RFO Hingani	07155-265538
RFO Samudrapur	07151-270171
RFO Wardha	07152-244159