Chief development officer Harak Singh Rawat instructed, on Tuesday, all the block development officers and others concerned to ensure that a fire line is drawn on both sides of the rural roads in 15 days. He stressed on the villagers being made aware of the imperative of preserving forests and stopping fire from playing havoc with the green cover. He asked the officers to rope in youth, Women Mangal Dal and the common men in the fire-fighting mechanism.
Rawat further said that the work of drawing fire line would be done under MNREGA. “We have received order on the matter from the State Government,” he said, adding that they must inform him how they act on the order right after the stipulated time is over.
He said that the officer who catches anyone setting the forest on fire would be rewarded with Rs5,000 as per the Government order.
Rawat instructed the block development officers to make the villagers aware of the danger lurking in collecting Paerol to make fertilizers out of it.