RTI APPLICATION REFERRED U/S 6(3) OF RTI ACT, 2005 BY DFO (H-QTR) CHAMBA ON 8-3-2025 REPLIED BY DFO CHURAH VIDE HIS NUMBER 1631DATED 27-7-2025 AND DELAYED MORE THAN REQUIRED

A RTI application was placed before the public information officer cum DFO Head quarter Office of the Chief Conservator of Forest Chamba on, 20-2-2025 and subsequently an Appeal also submitted before the FAA on 1-5-2025 and the second Appeal also processed before the SIC 21-7-2025 list by way and virtue of which now the PIO Cum DFO Churah forest Division Salooni District Chamba supplied relevant information of his division as related to the Extraction of roots of Kasmal from the private lands of area and circle and it is informed by the public information officer that twenty number contractors had been allowed to do this job of the private land under forest produce FCA -1980 for the year 2024-2025 and as per information received from the concerned public information officer of the Chamba district (based on the record) 57667.5 Qtls of roots of the Kasmal extracted from the area covered under Churah forest Division Salooni district Chamba and allowed for sale after its permission to sale for which rupees 400/ per Qtls have been assessed the evaluation based on the forest produce so extracted from the private land of the farmers and which is costing to rupees, 2,30,67000/only seems to be lesser side and even less than the fuel wood for which the evaluation should be correct and exact, so that the department of forest may take royalty charges, sale tax and GST as well as surcharge on the exact amount of the market value of the material converted from the roots of the Kasmal and creating environmental problems on the area of green belt protected by the farmers and also by the department of forest in concern to the digging and cutting as well as excavation of the land under roots of the Kasmal even the said material extracted is used for the purpose of the medicinal herbs and concerns for which the rate of the roots is on the lessor side and it is necessary to verify the facts of the market rates, so that the Government and the department of forest may take necessary charges from the private sector forest produce allowed for the open marketing. The illegal extraction of the Kasmal is a physical verification of the site and produce so extracted and noticed by the department or the complainant and for which a public authority is also not required to furnish information which require drawing of inference and/ making of assumptions. The information has been issued under section 2(f) of the Act and only refers to such material available in the records of the public authority, however information has been delayed by the public information officer and the part of information supplied by the public information officer related to his area and circle is proof and evidence on the record of all concerned for which second Appeal already submitted before the SIC on 21-7-2025 is proof and evidence on the record of the State information Commission for further action under law code manual prefixed under section 18to 20 of the RTI Act, 2005 :-- Er Fateh chand Guleria, Director RTI welfare Association registered number HPCD, 3552 , Bilaspur Himachal pradesh phone number, 9459334377