Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh): Chief Minister Mohan Yadav said that as many as 4,506 forest officials have been promoted, and the government has issued new recruitment orders to fill the posts which became vacant due to promotions.
The number of sanctioned posts in the forest department is 25,389 and more than 18,000 officials are working. The government wants to modernise forest management and has issued fresh recruitment orders to fill posts that fell vacant following promotions.
The Chief Minister was addressing the 'Abhinandan Samaroh' organised by promoted forest officials at the Indian Institute of Forest Management on Monday.
He dubbed field officers of the forest department 'Nature Sons' and 'Green Soldiers' for their relentless service to protect forests and wildlife, which provided the state the status of tiger, leopard, vulture and cheetah. He added that the state is number one in wildlife conservation across the country.
4,506 forest officials promoted
The 4,506 promoted forest officials include 188 assistant conservators of forest, 2,821 forest rangers, 761 deputy forest rangers and 736 from other categories.
This is for the first time that so many forest officials were promoted in one go. Principal secretary Raghvendra Singh shed light on modern methods adopted for wildlife conservation.
New recruitment orders issued to fill posts fallen vacant after promotion in forest deptt: CM
Chief Minister Mohan Yadav said that as many as 4,506 forest officials have been promoted and the government has issued a new recruitment order to fill the posts which became vacant due to promotion.
The number of posts sanctioned in forest department is 25,389 and more than 18000 officials are working. Government wants to connect forest management with modern technique and so
a new recruitment order has been to fill the posts which fell vacant due to promotion.
He was addressing the Abhinandan Samaroh organised by promoted forest officials at Indian Institute of Forest Management on Monday.
He dubbed field officers of forest department as Nature Son and Green Soldiers for their relentless service to protect forest and wildlife, which provided status of tiger, leopard, vulture, cheetah to the state.
He added that state is number one in wildlife conservation across the country.
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The 4506 promoted forest officials includes 188 Assistant Conservator of Forest, 2821 forest rangers, 761 deputy forest ranger and 736 from other categories. This is for the first time that so many forest officials were promoted in one go.
Principal Secretary Raghvendra Singh said shed light on modern methods adopted for wildlife conservation.
