CHANDIGARH: Devastating floods in Punjab have significantly hampered the state’s determined efforts to increase its diminishing inexperienced duvet. The woodland and flora and fauna preservation division has reported the lack of 4,94,956 timber over just about 776 hectares within the present floods – the worst in 37 years.The India State of Woodland File (ISFR) 2023 estimates the state’s woodland duvet at 1,846 sq km, simply 3.7% of its geographical house of about 50.3 lakh hectares. With just about 83% of the land below cultivation, there’s little scope for increasing woodland duvet.
The woodland division has pegged the wear and tear at about Rs 341.3 lakh. On the other hand, officers cautioned that those are simplest initial estimates, and the determine might upward push as soon as the floodwaters recede and the total extent of destruction is classed.
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A memorandum ready via primary leader conservator of forests Dharminder Sharma for submission to the inter-ministerial central group additionally famous harm to ten departmental structures, including every other Rs 19.2 lakh in losses. The whole harm has been assessed at over Rs 360.5 lakh. “As soon as the placement improves, an in depth plan might be drawn up to conquer the wear and tear led to to the fairway duvet via the floods,” Sharma mentioned.Professionals warning the floods have deepened Punjab’s ecological tension. With woodland duvet already a number of the lowest within the nation, the lack of plantations below state-run afforestation schemes is anticipated to additional gradual efforts to revive ecological stability.