Pauri district magistrate Chandra Shekhar Bhatt instructed Public Works Department, PMGSY and Asian Development Bank (ADB) engineers to ensure speed while maintaining the formalities in the matter of transferring forest land for the building of roads in the district.
He said, while addressing a meeting called to discuss forest land transfer, at Pauri on Wednesday that the pending matters should be completed in a week.
Bhatt also directed the divisional forest officer to act promptly on the proposals received from the departments concerned. He said that the proposals should be prepared for the roads which have been sanctioned.
In the meeting, Bhatt directed the officers concerned to submit the proposals regarding the pending forest land transfer, tree felling and NPB of several roads in a week. The nodal officer Public Works Department informed the meeting about the transfer of forest lands.
DM instructed that the proposals for the pending forest land transfers should be submitted to the forest department through the nodal officer.
DFO Ramesh Chandra and nodal officer, PWD, Nirbhaya Singh were among several officers who attended the meeting.