Patna, (Bihar Times): The department of environment and forests will no more rely on manual mapping of the forest areas covered during the patrolling. It will now take the help of Global Positioning System (GPS), which gathers information through the satellite.
To familiarize the forest officials a two-day workshop
was held in Patna on Wednesday and Thursday. It was
conducted by the technocrats from the US-based Jarmin
Company. The Chief Conservator for Development, B A
Khan, was the chief guest.
According to the Regional Conservator of Forest
Department, S S Chaudhary, the GPS would be of great
help during plantation or fire break-outs in the
forest. He said that to keep tracks of the area
covered under the plantation programme one just need
to move around the boundary of the forest. The GPS
will provide all the information about the virtual
status of the programme. Similar type of help will be
provided in case of fire break out in the forest.
GPS would be cost effective as the department would
now not need the help of Ameen to map the area. The
state government has purchased 30 GPS for this
purpose.
