50,000 hectares of forest land encroached in Jharkhand

Ranchi: The forest department of Jharkhand is getting encroached upon. According to the data of the forest department, 50 thousand hectares of forest land is under encroachment. Recently, a case of misappropriation of 70 acres of forest land has come to light in Bokaro, in which former PCCF AK Rastogi has come under investigation. At the same time, in the case of encroachment in forest land, many senior IFS officers may also be charged.
In Jharkhand, there was no increase in forest density. The density of dense forest is decreasing. But in various projects, about 13 billion forest land has been allocated in the name of the projects. A maximum of seven thousand hectares of forest land has been given for mining projects. At the same time, 14,000 hectares of forest land was given to private and public sector companies. The price of all these is estimated at Rs 13 billion
Forest land encroached in various forest divisions:
• Ranchi- East Division- 2135.014 hectares
• Ranchi- Wildlife Division- 56.007 hectares
• Khunti- Forest Division- 4596.044 hectares
• Gumla- Forest Division- 30.018 hectares
• Simdega – Forest Division – 46.079 hectares
• Ramgarh- Forest division- 193.853 hectares
• Bokaro- Forest Division- 285.0 hectares
• Dhanbad- Forest division- 893.084 hectares
• Latehar- Forest division- 334.399 hectares
• Chatra – Northern Forest Division – 549.553 hectares
• Chatra- Southern Forest Division- 1207.007 hectares
• Hazaribagh, Wildlife- 5.007 hectares
• Saranda- Forest Division- 5827.00 hectares
• Lohardaga- 137.068 hectares
• Dumka- 76.070 hectares
• Jamtada- 76.00 hectares
• Podaiyahat- 25206.004 hectare
• Chaibasa – Southern Forest Division – 588.042 hectares
• Dhaldhum Forest Division- 75.559 hectares
• Hazaribagh- Eastern Forest Division- 90.231 hectare
• Hazaribagh – Western Forest Division – 450.90 hectares
• Koderma- 1356.25 hectares
• Garhwa- North 85.033 hectares
• Garhwa- Southern 126.088 ha
• Tiger Project- Buffer Area- 0.693 hectares
• Tiger Project- Core Area- 1.006 hectares
• Godda- 8.177 hectares