SITs Set Up to Identify Forest Land With Revenue Dept

Haydarabad: The large forest land and disagreement between the forest and revenue departments may have advanced in terms of decision, the forest department said that the special investigation teams (sitting) established to identify and rearrange forest lands under the control of the Revenue Department control should send details before 15 September.

Sitting at the regional level was said to be allocated to private individuals or institutions for purposes other than forestry, under the ownership of the income department and this land under income control. Similar situations established at the level of income division were instructed by the forest department to keep the land from the control of the forest land and to take steps to be delivered to the forest department.

As the owner of such land parcels, although there was no official estimation of how much of the forest lands in the state has been discussed by the income department, the sources said that it could become tens of thousands of acres.

The establishment of SITS followed the orders from the Supreme Court in May this year, which clearly stated that all forest departments in all states should take back the control of the forest land used for non -forested purposes or activities under income control. Meanwhile, he lives in the four -member region and has only one authority from the forest department of income department levels.

Regional gathering at the regional level, additional collector (income), Regional Forestry Officer, Deputy Director of the Survey/Inspector (Research and Land Registration Department), teams, a police officer, a forest department officer and survey inspector inspector.