UTTAM STEEL PVT.LT. SATARDA & SATOSE LAND MATTER - SAWANTWADI DIVISION

Mission Elephant - Sawantwadi Division

Turtle Velas - Ratnagiri (Chiplun) Division

Nagpanchami Battish Shirala - Sangali Division

JFMC Mahabaleshwar - Satara Division

Porle Tarfe Thane - Kolhapur Division

The increasing deplition of State's forest resources has brought into sharp focus the inherent inadequacy of traditional state-owned and run system of forest management in sustaining the forest resource base against the growing human and live stock population pressures, industrilisation and overall economic development. Apart from the developmental pressures, the dependence of forest user groups is a crucial factor in states forests. In acknowledging this factor the Ministry of Environment and Forests, Govt. of India issued policy guidelines for the involvement of village communities and voluntary agencies in the regeneration of degraded forest land on 1 st June 1990 under Joint Forest management programme.

The position of No. of forest protection committees, no. of members etc. was as given below:

Forest Protection Committees

 

District	Division	No.of FPCs	Total members	Forest area under protection (Ha)
Kolhapur	Kolhapur	446	148223	139119
Satara	Satara	858	233875	132083
Sindhudurg	Sawantwadi	132	39664	42365
Sangli	Sangli	261	190323	30372
Ratnagiri	Chiplun	91	968	6259
Total	--	1788	613053	350198

 

Joint Forest management programme : Village Bondri, Tal. patan, Dist. Satara

After implementation of Joint Forest Management Programme in this village, there was awareness about Bio-diversity among the members. The Forest Protection Committee was selected for First Prize at District under Sant Tukaram Van Gram Programme, 2011. Following effects were observed in and around village Bondri.

1. There was no case of forests fire in this village since last 15 years.

2. There was increase in Forest Density because of various plantation programme under taken by the Forest Department.

3. Even though there was nuisance from wildlife from adjoining Koyna Wildlife Sanctuary, there was no case of man-animal conflict otherwise poisoning of wildlife by the villagers,because of awareness created by staff of Forest Department andrapid settlement of cases of crop damage and paymentetc. by the Forest Department.

4. There was sufficient supply of water for cultivation because of various works undertaken under various Soil and Moisture Conservation by the Forest Department.

Elephant Mission (Marathi).pdf