Dehradun: As a part of its strategy to control forest fire, Uttarakhand’s Forest department is set to experiment with new technologies. The department has recently developed a new mobile App to reduce the response time to deal with the incident of forest fire across the state.
While digitizing its information management system, the department has developed a “Forest Fire Uttarakhand Mobile App”. All the personnel concerned of the forest department will be given to operate the new App.
The new mobile App will help the forest department to ensure quick response to deal with forest fire
The main objective of the forest department is to reduce the response time in case of a report about the incident of forest fire in any part of the state. Through the new App, which the department has recently developed, the response time to deal with any incident of forest fire can be reduced to a great extent, as per the media reports. At present, the officials concerned of the forest department are trying to make aware the personnel concerned of their department to ensure better use of the App in case of the incident of forest fires.
Master control room trainer/ control room trainer will be trained to operate the new App in the first phase
The officers will give training to the personnel concerned of their department to operate the new “Forest Fire Uttarakhand Mobile App”. As per the programme, the district forest officer of Haridwar Vaibhav Kumar will give training to master control room trainer and master trainer about the new App.
The department has nominated two master trainers
The department has nominated two master trainers, one control room operator and one master control room employee for the training from every forest division. The employees, who are posted under Bhagirathi and Garhwal circles, have already been given training to operate the new App.
Dates for the training of the employee concerned
The department has fixed the dates for giving training to the forest department’s personnel of different circles. While the training will be given to the personnel concerned of the department’s Shivalik circle today, the date for the training for the personnel of the North Kumaon circle is fixed as November 16. The personnel concerned of South Kumaon circle, Western circle, and the Rajaji & the Corbett reserve will receive the training to operate the new App on 18, 19 and 20 November.
Forest fire is a major challenge for the state
There is also a plan to connect the officers, employees, village chief, representative of different NGOs and Panchayat Sarpanch with the Fire Alert System, developed by the Forest Survey of India. This hill state has 71 percent forest cover. It has become a major challenge for the state government to bring the forest fires under control. This year forest fires were reported from almost every district of the state.
