The State Welfare Minister lyuis Marandi on Wednesday formally handed over appointment letters to 32 newly recruited forest guards for Bokaro district forest division at Badminton Club, Sector 5 in Bokaro Steel City.
The new recruits will be trained to do guarding of forest especially to handle with herbivore, carnivore as well as jumbos in the forest areas.
They will be involved in forest management, protection, plantation as well as wild life crime control related work, said PR Naidu DFO Bokaro
The forest guards will also focus on forming local forest ‘suraksha samitis’ and involve more women in those groups in a bid to get intelligence and to protect forest and to control the wildlife related crime in their areas, he said. Forest guards remain unarmed here except for one lathi and an axe.