A team of trainee officers of the Indian Forest Service (IFS) from the Indira Gandhi National Forest Academy, Dehradun, are touring Chhattisgarh to study the Narva development works in the forest regions here.
An official communiqué said the officials are in their mid-career training phase at the Dehradun academy.
The trainees also saw value addition process of minor forest produce and observed the positive changes that have come in the lives of rural women groups due to the forest produce.
The team witnessed the Narva development work done in Pampar drain in South Singhpur range of Dhamtari forest.
The Narva treatment work has been done in a stretch of two-and-a-half kilometers. For this, 16 different structures have been constructed.
The officials also learned the process of manufacturing and selling various products made from minor forest produce. Those who were part of the tour were V. Srinivasa Rao, CEO CAMPA, Amit Kumar, Assistant Professor, Indira Gandhi National Forest Academy, Dehradun, Mayank Pandey, Divisional Forest Officer, Dhamtari, and S.K.S. Navik, Deputy Forest Officer, Birgudi.