STATE GOVERNMENT OF HIMACHAL PRADESH HAS OBTAINED (SC) NOD FOR FELLING KHAIR TREES ,IN THE HP FOREST LAND.

The Supreme court has allowed felling of khair trees on the government forest land in the ten forest divisions of the Himachal Pradesh. Stating this nod of the Supreme court, yesterday the Chief Minister of the state Shri Sukhwinder Singh said that the case regarding this had been pleaded by the government and now the judgement has been delivered by the supreme court in favor of the department of forests. The Chief Minister further stated that the department of forests has already prepared a working plan for the five divisions which includes, Una , Hamirpur, Bilaspur,Nalagarh and the Kutlehar .The yield prescribed was said 16500 trees per annum in theses forest divisions and the work of the extraction of the khair trees will be started shortly. The Chief Minister further stated that the working plan for the remaining five forest divisions ie , Nahan , Paonta Sahib , Dharamshala, Nurpur and Dehra was going on and now the forest officers would start the process of inspecting forests and too enumerating the trees required to be removed from the forests as per the working plan approved by the code of identification and investigation under working plan of the required sanction .The silviculture felling of khair trees said to be a better management and rejuvenation,in addition to the revenue generation for the state exchequer,as most of the khair trees are decaying. It is required to be maintained under the code for consideration and allowing to fell with in the probability lines and factor of safety for the future course of action plan under the provision made by the time bound schedule of ten years list by way and virtue of which the valuable khair trees are converted into the Katha and the fuel wood for which the private sector organisations and the farmers are also allowed by the government to have approval of their khair trees standing in their lands and took felling orders for the removal of the valuable khair product increasing the financial support of the farmers ,however the government is responsible to allow the felling in large scale enumeration required to be marked at the boundary lines by the Himachal Pradesh forest department being responsible to protect the illigal felling of trees in the forest areas .