Forest officer trainees visit Dzükou and Pangti

KOHIMA — A team of 69 officer trainees from the Central Academy for State Forest Service (CASFOS), under the Ministry of Environment, Forest, and Climate Change (MoEFCC), recently visited Nagaland as part of their three-day educational tour.

Among other places in Nagaland, the team visited Dzükou Valley in Kohima district and Amur Falcon capital of the world, Pangti village in Wokha district. The team left for Meghalaya on Saturday evening.

Upon their arrival in Kohima, Aditya Sharma, an officer trainee from Shimla in Himachal Pradesh, informed Eastern Mirror about the team comprising officers from seven different states namely Maharashtra, Odisha, Tripura, Bihar, Himachal, Uttarakhand, and Uttar Pradesh.

The visit to Nagaland formed an integral part of the ‘East India Tour’ for the 36th State Forest Service (SFS) Induction Course (22-24 batch), which is a crucial aspect of the training programme.

In addition to the theoretical knowledge they received, Sharma emphasised the importance of practical experience, which involves extensive tours typically spanning 30 days. He mentioned that their journey commenced in Odisha on September 21 and covered West Bengal, Sikkim, Assam and Nagaland before they continued their tour to Meghalaya.

During the tour to Nagaland, the team interacted with the chairman of the Pangti Village Council and visited the North Eastern Electric Power Corporation Limited (NEEPCO) dam in Wokha. They also met the principal chief conservator of forests and head of forest force in Kohima before heading to Meghalaya on Saturday.

Sharma emphasised that their focus was on exploring locations renowned for their forestry aspects in Nagaland with particular attention to Dzükou Valley and Pangti as part of their educational journey.

The team was accompanied by two officers namely Suman WM Sivachar, DFO of Wokha division, and Pradeep C Wahule, lecturer at CASFOS, Dehradun.

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