Chief Minister Harish Rawat directed all the DMs and forest officials to resolve the cases related to forest land devolution with mutual co-ordination by the stipulated time. He also directed them to ensure that a routine weekly meeting of forest and public works department is called with other departmental officials concerned being kept on board.
Reviewing the on-line cases regarding forest land devolution through the video conferencing with all the DMs and forest and public works department officials, CM expressed satisfaction over the progress of cases being settled down amicably till date.
However, in the same breath, he exhorted for greater speed. He obtained district-wise information of updated status from all the DMs and also of hiccups dogging such cases. In this context, he asked the principal secretary, Forest and Forest Conservation land Survey, to re-issue the directions to resolve cases rapidly.
CM further directed them to constitute team of officials from forest and PWD for the inspection of the districts. This is to ensure that they can do ground-level inspections along with resolving the hardships related with the cases.
Rawat also directed all the DMs to speedily complete the cases related with parks and sanctuaries by April 15, the day the meeting of Wild life Board would be held.
He said that speedier transfer of forest land would mean faster construction of roads. This is the way we should address public dissatisfaction positively, he stressed.