Ajay Narayan Jha, Secretary, Union Ministry of Environment Forest and Climate Change visited Forest Survey of India, Dehradun on Saturday and reviewed the activities of the organisation.
Saibal Dasgupta, Director General, FSI apprised him about the various activities going on in the FSI including Forest Cover Mapping, Forest Inventory, Forest Fire pre-warning alert system, High resolution satellite data for precise monitoring of forest resources on the ground. A presentation on newly developed e-Green Watch for CAMPA monitoring and Decision Support System for forest clearance activities was given.
Jha also visited various laboratories established for forest cover mapping, e-green watch, high resolution data processing, forest type mapping, Inventory, forest fire monitoring cell of entire country and data centre and expressed his satisfaction and happiness over the initiative taken by FSI for the Digital India Mission. Jha stressd on monitoring the changes at regular interval so as to address the issues for better management and development of forest resources of the country. During this visit Dr Savita, Director, FRI, Dr S Buxy, DIG(RT), MoEF & CC and officers, staff of FSI were also present.