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Mohali: Minister inaugurates inspection hut at Pallanpur

Refurbished at a cost of Rs 70 lakh
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: Forest and Wildlife Preservation Minister Lal Chand Kataruchak during inauguration of the newly refurbished inspection hut at Pallanpur village. Tribune photo: Vicky
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Forest and Wildlife Preservation Minister Lal Chand Kataruchak today inaugurated an inspection hut at Pallanpur (Part of the Siswan Forest range), refurbished at a cost of Rs 70 lakh. In Mirzapur also, the rest house would be renovated and given a new look.

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Further, a nature trail is also being developed in the backyard of the inspection hut. On completion, the nature trail with various species of birds would be a unique and breathtaking site for nature lovers.

The minister said keeping in view the 350th Martyrdom Day of Guru Tegh Bahadur Sahib, the department was chalking out a plan to plant 3.50 crore saplings with emphasis on fruit saplings this year.

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“In Dhar block of Pathankot district, a guest house has come up beside a nature interpretation centre at Harike. In Dholbaha too, such development centric activities are being planned,” he said.

Recently, 378 contractual workforce of the Forest Department was regularised, he said.

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Principal Chief Conservator of Forests Dharminder Sharma, APCCF- cum-CEO PUNCAMPA Saurav Gupta, CCF (Hills) Nidhi Srivastava, CCF (Wildlife) Sagar Setia, Shivalik Circle CFO Kannan and Mohali DFO Kanwardeep Singh were present on the occasion.

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