<p> Tuesday, October 31, 2006</p><p>(Not an official document)</p><p>Government of India Ministry of Environment & Forests (Research & Training Division) Phone: 011-2436 1774 E-mail: [email protected], [email protected] Website: www.ifs.nic.in/rt</p><p>1 The MoEF has constituted a participating in the courses. The Committee under the chairmanship officers will be nominated for the of DG, ICFRE for suggesting courses depending on their field(s) measures for ‘Strengthening of preference, availability of slots in Institutional Mechanisms for that particular course, number of Capacity Building in the Forestry officers to be nominated from each Sector’ with heads of forestry state including the range of number institutions in Dehradun, as of years of service an officer has put members. The terms of reference in and direct relevance of the theme include recommending criteria for to the officers of the state etc. having a common pool of resource Whereas all efforts are made to persons, criteria for organising nominate the officer as per the field proposed awareness meetings, of preference, the decision of MoEF workshops, study visits etc., for would be final. various stakeholder groups & personnel of other services which 4 The ICFRE has established a ‘Forest have bearing on the management in Invasive Species (FIS) Cell’ in FRI, forestry sector and drafting a scheme Dehradun to document and monitor for domestic funding for foreign behavior of invasive species, suggest training of forestry personnel. measures for preventing their introduction and undertake research 2 The Webpage of the RT Division on their cost effective and least (www.ifs.nic.in/rt) has been made harmful methods of eradication and interactive by having a provision for control. providing suggestions on the various capacity building programmes of the 5 The nominations for one-week MoEF in the forestry sector. It will courses and two-day training become operational in about a workshops to be organized by week’s time. various institutions up to mid- January 2007 have been finalized 3 A provision has also been made in and communicated to the State the Webpage of the division for Governments and also being put on exercising choices in order of the webpage of the Division. preference by an officer for</p><p>1 6 The National Forest Sports Meet is Shri J C Kala, IFS (TN: 68) has being held at Jaipur from February been appointed as DGF & 6-8, 2007. Hence, the MoEF has Secretary to the GOI in the decided to change the dates of one MoEF w.e.f. October 26, 2006. week courses for the IFS officers Shri J C Kala (TN: 68) DGF & scheduled to be held from February Secretary retires on 05-09, 2007 at Panchkula and superannuation from the Bhubaneswar. The courses will now Government Service on the be conducted from January 29- afternoon of October 31st, 2006. February, 02, 2007 (at Panchkula) Shri G K Prasad (MT: 70) and February 12-16th, 2007 (at ADGF (Forests) will hold Bhubaneswar), respectively. additional charge of DGF and ex-officio Special Secretary in 7 The Annual General Meetings of the the MoEF till Jan 31, 2007 or IIFM Society and ICFRE Society until further orders. He is also will be held on November 17 and 19, looking after the duties of ADGF 2006 respectively in New Delhi. (Wildlife).</p><p>From IFS Division: Shri Ansar Ahmed (NG: 78) IGF, Externally-Aided Projects 8 The IFS Division is in the process of is also looking after the duties of finalizing the format for filling of IGF, Forest Conservation. Performance Appraisal Reports (PARs) for IFS officers (replacing Shri Pramod G Krishnan (KR: the existing ACR system) on the 97) is posted as Joint Director pattern of other two AISs. This Wildlife and J P Mishra would be a tool for career planning (AGMUT: 92) as AIG, Forest and training, rather than a mere Policy. judgmental exercise. It will be based on numerical gradings against 15-20 From States: indicators and proposed to be made applicable w.e.f. year 2007-08. 10 Manipur Government has inaugurated a separate website for 9 The DoPT has requested the MoEF the forest department on October to consider introduction of Mid- 21, 2006 which can be visited at http://manipurforest.gov.in Career Training Programmes for IFS officers on the pattern of one 11 The new website of approved for IAS. It is proposed to Karnataka Forest Department modify the existing pattern of mid- is career training for IFS officers being www:karnatakaforest.gov.in imparted at IGNFA to officer in their 10th, 17th and 21st year of service. The Obituary: proposal is to impart training</p><p> between 7th-9th, 16th-18th and 26th-28th 12 Shri R C Purwar (TN: 84) years of service and make it expired on October 28, 2006. compulsory for promotions to higher May his soul rest in peace! scales by amending the corresponding Pay Rules. (A K. Goyal) 9. During the month, the following DIG (RT) appointments, transfers, postings and Tuesday, October 31, 2006 retirements from service have taken place:</p><p>2  {Please click at Lists of IFS Officers nominated for the courses & for Training Workshops: click at Lists of IFS Officers nominated } for accessing copies of the letters of nominations of IFS Officers for the courses.</p><p>Kindly visit our webpage at www.ifs.nic.in/rt </p><p>3</p>