In the coming season, the Forest Department is emphasizing on promoting digital services to protect forests from fire. The department is preparing the Forest Fire Uttarakhand mobile app, which will be launched soon. With this, steps can be taken in the shortest possible time for information and action on fire incidents. Forest department officials reviewed the progress of the app and emphasized on making it more modern. Also, claimed to control the fire in the coming season with the help of five thousand personnel and five thousand volunteers.
Fire information management system should be linked to digital services
A meeting was held under the chairmanship of Chief Forest Conservator Dr. Dhananjay Mohan regarding the progress of Forest Fire Uttarakhand mobile app at the state level. In which Divisional Forest Officer of Haridwar Vaibhav Kumar Singh gave a presentation regarding the mobile app and dashboard in the control room. Based on the experiences of forest fire management in the past years, it was decided by the Forest Department that the forest fire information management system in the state should be modernized and linked to digital services. Information can be exchanged on a real time basis through the Forest Fire Uttarakhand mobile app and dashboard. Which will reduce the response time taken to prevent forest fires. Through this IT system, GIS mapping of more than 1400 crew stations has been done in the Uttarakhand Forest Department. Through the mobile app, any person and tourist can also send information about forest fire directly to the control room of the Forest Headquarters through geo-tagged images.
Earlier from the year 2020 to 2022, IFS officer Vaibhav Kumar Singh, while being the Divisional Forest Officer of Rudraprayag, successfully operated digital technology to prevent forest fires in Rudraprayag, for which the National e-Governance Award-2022 was also awarded by the Central Government. Additional Chief Conservator of Forests Forest Fire Nishant Verma, Additional Chief Conservator of Forests Garhwal Naresh Kumar and all Divisional Forest Officers were present in the meeting.
