DIVISIONAL FOREST OFFICER SOCAL FORESTRY DIVISION BARAMULLA

The Govt. vide order No. 481-FST of 2004 dated; 28/10/2004 converted the social Foretry Project into a full fledged department,headed by aDirector of the Rannk of Addl.Pr Chief Conservator of Forets, realizing fully well the need for reviving the deptt. Enableing it to take up plantations into the degraded  Forest lands and waste lands on a massive scale in the following categories of plantgations.

1-Raising of village wood lots.

2-Rehabilitation of Degraded Forests,

3-Rasing of strip plantations.

4-Farm Foretry.5-Instituitional plantations.

The main fucntion of the deptt. Of Social forestry is to create nurseries to produce planting stocks , raise plantations, distribution of plant material to the people (Rural/ Urban), Farmers, Govt.agencies for planting in their premises / filds with an ultimate goal of greeing the state,  improving the environment , generating the employeement .

Name & Designatioin of Head of Division

Mr Arshad Ahmad Lala