Jungle tales (Deccan Chronicle)
In recent months the government has made concerted efforts to focus on the long-ignored Indian Forest Service (IFS, including programmes to train forest babus, and sending mid-career officers abroad for study or research. But the government may not have envisioned the lurking perils. Reports about a Chinese woman who has complained of misbehaviour against a forest official from Madhya Pradesh attending a training programme in Canada cannot but cause concern in Delhi.
In recent months the government has made concerted efforts to focus on the long-ignored Indian Forest Service (IFS, including programmes to train forest babus, and sending mid-career officers abroad for study or research. But the government may not have envisioned the lurking perils. Reports about a Chinese woman who has complained of misbehaviour against a forest official from Madhya Pradesh attending a training programme in Canada cannot but cause concern in Delhi.
But apart from this aberration, the forest babus are feeling relieved that the government has decided, for now, not to set up separate departments for forests and wildlife as recommended by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, which would have split the service.
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