Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Government today announced cancellation of leaves of field forest officials to monitor the wildfire situation.
The State Forest and Environment Department issued a notification in this regard on Wednesday.
“No leave shall be granted to any field official,” the notification reads.
In exceptional circumstances where it is considered unavoidable to allow any official to remain on leave, prior approval of next authority (not below the rank of DFO) should be obtained and PCCF be kept informed.
Any deviation from this instruction shall be viewed seriously, it added.
The field officials have already under direction to take all measures to prevent and deal with the forest fires on 24 x 7 basis and the situation is being monitored and reviewed at the State level on daily basis.