Chief Secretary chairs 117th FAC
16/10/2019
SRINAGAR, Oct 16: The Forest Advisory Committee (FAC) headed by Chief Secretary, B V R Subrah-manyam in its 117th meeting held in Civil Secretariat, Srinagar cleared 43 proposals regarding use of 271 hectares of forest land for various projects of public importance in the road, drinking water, power and Civil Aviation sectors on specified terms and conditions.
Financial Commissi-oner Revenue, Principal Secretary Planning Deve-lopment & Monitoring Department, Commis-sioner /Secretary Forest, Ecology & Environment Department, Commi-ssioner/Secretary, PDD, Commissioner/Secretary, PHE and I&FC, Principal Chief Conservator of Forests J&K/ Director Soil and Water Conservation Department, J&K, Director Environment and Remote Sensing Department, J&K, Chief Wildlife Warden, J&K, Chief Conservator of Forests/ Member Secre-tary FAC, Environ-mentalists Dr S P Dutta and Dr G A Bhat, other senior officers of Forest and PMGSY and representatives of User Agencies participated in the meeting.
The proposals cleared today include use of forest land for laying of 132/KV Double Circuit Badampora - Bandipora Transmission line by PDD, Under Ground Cabling of power supply at Patnitop by PDD, Laying of 11 KV (HT) for Rural Electrification at Kathila in Udhampur by PDD, Construction of 2.50 MV 220/33 KV Grid Station at Nagrota by PDD, Construction of 20,000 Gallons GSR at Thanger under Water Supply Scheme Tallian Kala Chang in Nowshera by PHE Department, Drilling of Tube Wells at Choglamsar under UIDSSMT in Leh, Laying of Optical Fibre by Reliance Info Comm in Kalidhar in Jammu and Chatroo Synthan State Highway in Marwah, Relocation of Army Ammunition Depot in Samba, Construction of Rod from Dhamunda Morh to Jai via Manthla Kakool in Bhaderwah by PWD R&B Department and various road proposals under PMGSY in Kishtwar, Doda, Shopian, Anantnag, Reasi, Rajouri, Udhampur, Samba and Kathua, districts and other critical infrastructure.
The Forest Advisory Committee also accorded in principle approval for Development of Judicial Infrastructure for High Court in Jammu and felling of Trees coming in the upgradation of Four Lane section of NH-144 A of Jammu Akhnoor road.
Three proposals in the road sector were deferred with a direction to the user agency to revisit the alignment so as to reduce the number of tress to bare minimum.
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