Department of Forest Affairs (West Bengal)

Department of Forest Affiars is a ministerial office jurisdicted by Government of West Bengal.[2]

Department of Forest Affairs

Seal of West Bengal
Department overview
Jurisdiction	Government of West Bengal
Headquarters	Aranya Bhavan, Block-LA, 10-A, Sector-III, Salt Lake, Kolkata-700106
Minister responsible	Vacant, Minister in Charge[1]
Deputy Minister responsible	Sujit Bose[1], Minister of State
Department executive	Sri Hirdyesh Mohan,IAS, Principal Secretary
Website	Official Website

Ministerial Team

This department is located at Arayna Bhawan at Salt Lake, Kolkata. It works for forest and wildlife in West Bengal. Naturally, changes have also been made in the Forest Organization, in consideration of the present day need of the administration to meet the whole gamut of functions of forest and wildlife management, consolidation of participatory forest management in different agro climatic regions and execution on a very large scale of activities related to social/farm/urban forestry in non-forest areas of the state. In 1974, West Bengal Forest Development Corporation Ltd. Came into being for large scale harvesting of forest produces, creation of new eco-tourism centres, productions and marketing of forest products and such allied activities. The administration of West Bengal Forest Development Corporation Limited at various level is headed by the officers of the Forest Directorate on deputation.[3]

The current minister in charge is Rajib Banerjee since 2019 and minister of state is Sujit Bose, who is also minister of fire department and also chief of West Bengal Fire Service.

References

1. "Minister in charge in forest department-Information" (PDF). Website from Government of West Bengal. Retrieved 30 November 2020.
2. "Official Website". West Bengal Forest Department.
3. "Details of the department". wb.gov.in (Egiye Bangla). Retrieved 30 November 2020.