STATE TIMES NEWS
RAJOURI: District Level Committee on Forests Rights Act which met under the Chairmanship of the Deputy Commissioner Rajouri, Rajesh K Shavan on Tuesday cleared 18 claims here in a meeting held in the Conference Hall of the PWD Dak Bunglow.
Among the others, DFO Rajouri, Arshdeep Singh; DFO Nowshera, Neelima; ADC Rajouri, Sachin Dev Singh; ADC Sunderbani, Vinod Kumar Behnal; ADC Nowshera, Sukhdev Singh Sambayal; ADC Kalakote, Krishan Lal; ADC Koteranka, Surinder Mohan Sharma; CPO, Mohammad Khurshid; ACP, Mohd Rashid Kohli; AC Defence, Saleem Quershi; CEO Education, Gulzar Hussain; ExEn Jal Shakti Rajouri, Mushtaq Ahmed attended the meeting.
BDC Chairperson Qila Darhal, Khalid Firdoz and BDC Chairperson Panjgrain, Mian Imran Chowdhury were also present in the meeting.
After a threadbare discussion and scrutiny of all the claims put up in the meeting, the committee cleared 21 claims for granting forest rights to the beneficiaries.
So far, three meetings of the DLC have been convened in the district and as many as 477 claims have been cleared. The DC has issued strict instructions to the concerned authorities for the coverage of all eligible beneficiaries under the Forest Right Act so that they can be provided necessary benefits under the Act.
He also asked the concerned officers from the Education Department and Jal Shakti to submit the list of the schools functioning on the forest land and the schemes of the Jal Shakti Department operating within the forest boundaries respectively at the earliest.
The next DLC meeting is scheduled to be convened on next Monday.