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The Tamil Nadu authorities has issued an bid constituting a Governing Committee and an Executive Committee to oversee and negociate the Tamil Nadu Endangered Species Conservation Fund.
The bid was issued by Supriya Sahu, Additional Chief Secretary, Environment, Climate Change and Forests Department, connected November 1.
The fund, established successful November 2024 with a corpus of ₹50 crore and an archetypal authorisation of ₹5 crore arsenic effect money, aims to fortify conservation measures for endangered taxon crossed the State. Initially managed done the State Forest Development Agency, the authorities has present ordered that it beryllium administered done the Advanced Institute for Wildlife Conservation (AIWC), Vandalur, to guarantee specialised technological oversight.
The Governing Committee, chaired by the Chief Secretary to the Government, volition usher and steer the fund’s utilisation and augmentation. The Additional Chief Secretary to Government, Environment, Climate Change and Forests Department, volition service arsenic Vice-Chairperson. Other members see the Secretaries to Government of the Finance and Industries Departments; the Principal Chief Conservator of Forests (Head of Forest Force); the Principal Chief Conservator of Forests and Chief Wildlife Warden; the Principal Chief Conservator of Forests and Director, AIWC; the Principal Chief Conservator of Forests and Secretary, Tamil Nadu Biodiversity Board; the Chairman, Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board; the Director of Environment; the Chairperson of the National Biodiversity Authority oregon a representative; the Director, Wildlife Institute of India oregon a representative; and the Director, Institute of Forest Genetics and Tree Breeding, Coimbatore.
The committee volition conscionable astatine slightest erstwhile each 4 months and volition person a tenure of 3 years.
The Governing Committee besides includes respective experts and philanthropists arsenic tenurial members, among them Rohini Nilekani, Chairperson, Rohini Nilekani Philanthropies; Mallika Srinivasan, Chairman and Managing Director, Tractors and Farm Equipment Limited (TAFE); J.K. Patterson Edward, Director, Suganthi Devadasan Marine Research Institute, Thoothukudi; K. Jayakumar, Professor, Madurai Kamaraj University; S. Balachandran, Managing Trustee, Migratory Bird Monitoring Trust and erstwhile Deputy Director, Bombay Natural History Society; and Arumugam, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Broadline Technologies.
The Executive Committee, chaired by the Additional Chief Secretary to Government, Environment, Climate Change and Forests Department, volition negociate the fund’s day-to-day operations. Its members see the Principal Chief Conservator of Forests and Director, AIWC; the Chairperson, Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board; the Additional Principal Chief Conservator of Forests (Wildlife); the Chief Conservator of Forests (Research); and the Director of Environment. The Deputy Director (Administration), AIWC, volition service arsenic the Member Convener, portion the Project Leader of each funded task volition beryllium co-opted arsenic a peculiar invitee.
The Executive Committee volition supervise the implementation of projects, show conservation activities, mobilise resources and guarantee that the fund’s objectives of protecting and restoring endangered taxon successful Tamil Nadu are efficaciously achieved.
