Teak trees felled in the heart of Miao

Our Correspondent

BORDUMSA: A well known headman of a village in Namphai-II, was found guilty of felling teak trees along the CHC road here recently under Miao police station in Changlang district of Arunachal Pradesh.

“Around 8 labourers allegedly were engaged in cutting down the teak trees in broad daylight. They managed to flee the crime scene”, informed a local journalist adding “the intention was to encroach on the said plot of land.”

However, following the news of the illegal act spreading around the township, the volunteers of Miao Singpho Ramma Hpung reached the spot in large numbers followed by the Forest department personnel, who immediately swung into action to save the solitary teak plantation.

A team of the Forest department comprising of Deputy Range Officer S Wangsa, Foresters Mitchi Dole and B Bangsia immediately fenched the area with barb wire and replaced the chopped trees with new saplings.

Later, the logs were seized and kept under the custody of RFO at Namphai-I. No arrest has been made till the filling of this report.

Meanwhile a well placed sources in the Forest department alleged that couple of other parties have also encroached upon large portion of the plantation and built commercial buildings in the township without obtaining NOC from the Forest department.

However, the Forest department with limited resources and manpower under the leadership of RFO T Mali has always been trying its best to protect the solitary teak plantation.

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