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The Principal Chief Conservator of Forests (Head of Forest Force) Srinivas R. Reddy has formed 3 peculiar parties to undertake a elaborate enumeration of the amerciable felling of wattle and eucalyptus trees successful Mannavanur scope successful Kodaikanal division.
As per the order, the Additional Principal Chief Conservator of Forests V .C. Rahul volition caput the teams which are required to taxable their findings earlier January 31.
The 3 teams, which are expected to sojourn 3 antithetic locations namely, Mannavanur range, Berijam scope and Kodaikanal range, shall dwell of 11 members each. The squad members person been drawn from assorted zones crossed Tamil Nadu.
The officials successful the Dindigul Division are required to furnish each records sought by the peculiar parties arsenic portion of the broad probe.
After the eco-activist groups successful the precocious elevation presumption raised eyebrows implicit the rampant felling of implicit 1200 Shola trees, sometime successful November-December 2025, the Forest section swung into enactment and ordered the probe.
Preliminary inquiries conducted wrong the section led to the suspension of 4 officers including the wood scope serviceman successful Dindigul part successful this connection.
According to the activists, the amerciable felling of trees, astir of which were identified arsenic uncommon species, had been executed successful connivance with immoderate timber merchants and the wood was transported to antithetic parts of Kerala by trucks.
The teams headed by the Additional Principal Chief Conservator of Forests volition sojourn the elevation presumption soon, officials present said.
