With a sanctioned staff of 32, the regional office is presently hugely understaffed as only 12 members are there to look after the eight Northeastern States.
The North East Regional Office set up by the Ministry of Environment and Forests in 7 April, 1986 along with the regional offices in Bangalore, Bhubaneshwar, Bhopal and Lucknow doesn’t even have a regular Chief Conservator of Forest (CCF).
Very surprisingly 22 years after the regional office was set up, the Environment and Forest Ministry is yet to fill up 20 posts some of it at the very top level.
Considering that the mandate of the regional office created by the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests is to monitor and evaluate ongoing forestry development projects and schemes with specific emphasis to conservation of forests, to undertake physical inspection of sites in cases of diversion of forest involving an area of more than 40 hectares, regional level technical and scientific consultation with the State advisory committee which are among some of the list of its job profile, the delay of appointing the required staff is perplexing.
At present the NERO CCF post is vacant with the Bhubaneshwar CCF RK Dey holding additional charge. He comes only for two days to Shillong office and inevitable all the files needing forest clearance get stranded in his office.
If adhoc arrangement of giving additional charge of NERO to the Bhubaneshwar CCF has been made then the second important post of Conservator of Forest is lying vacant.
NERO Deputy Conservator of Forest RL Sanga told reporters on Friday: “The shortage of manpower has certainly impact disposal of project proposals with the stipulated time frame of 45 days.
However, we try our best to perform up to our optimum.” In these 22 years of existence, NERO has approved 1,125 different projects and given the forests clearance in the eight Northeastern States.
According to Sanga, the job profile of NERO also involves traveling to different projects sites in the eight States — Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tripura and Sikkim. Inevitably, as there is manpower shortage, the effectiveness of this regional office is curtailed. NERO staff says that the position in other regional offices is far better as almost all the posts have been filled up. SHILLONG, Jan 15 : With 80 projects to monitor in a year, the Union Ministry of Environment and Forest North East Regional Office (NERO), headquartered in Shillong, is facing a manpower crunch that has impaired its effective functioning.
With a sanctioned staff of 32, the regional office is presently hugely understaffed as only 12 members are there to look after the eight Northeastern States.
The North East Regional Office set up by the Ministry of Environment and Forests in 7 April, 1986 along with the regional offices in Bangalore, Bhubaneshwar, Bhopal and Lucknow doesn’t even have a regular Chief Conservator of Forest (CCF).
Very surprisingly 22 years after the regional office was set up, the Environment and Forest Ministry is yet to fill up 20 posts some of it at the very top level.
Considering that the mandate of the regional office created by the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests is to monitor and evaluate ongoing forestry development projects and schemes with specific emphasis to conservation of forests, to undertake physical inspection of sites in cases of diversion of forest involving an area of more than 40 hectares, regional level technical and scientific consultation with the State advisory committee which are among some of the list of its job profile, the delay of appointing the required staff is perplexing.
At present the NERO CCF post is vacant with the Bhubaneshwar CCF RK Dey holding additional charge. He comes only for two days to Shillong office and inevitable all the files needing forest clearance get stranded in his office.
If adhoc arrangement of giving additional charge of NERO to the Bhubaneshwar CCF has been made then the second important post of Conservator of Forest is lying vacant.
NERO Deputy Conservator of Forest RL Sanga told reporters on Friday: “The shortage of manpower has certainly impact disposal of project proposals with the stipulated time frame of 45 days.
However, we try our best to perform up to our optimum.” In these 22 years of existence, NERO has approved 1,125 different projects and given the forests clearance in the eight Northeastern States.
According to Sanga, the job profile of NERO also involves traveling to different projects sites in the eight States — Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tripura and Sikkim. Inevitably, as there is manpower shortage, the effectiveness of this regional office is curtailed. NERO staff says that the position in other regional offices is far better as almost all the posts have been filled up.
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