Forest Academy now in Chandrapur

The state forest department is all set to set up a modern training facility at Chandrapur. This special training facility is scheduled to be set by the end of 2018 year and its total cost is Rs 186 crore.   As per the report published in The Times of India, Director of the Chandrapur Forest Academy, Ashok Khadse said, "We had proposed the academy in 2016 and spent the last year getting approval and planning. The project received administrative approval, technical clearance, and financial outlay last month. On March 27, a high-powered committee headed by the chief secretary was set up".  "The PWD will look into the technical and administrative work of the project until its completion. We expect the tender for the construction project to be issued within the next 8 to 10 days, and work to begin by the second week of May," Khadse further added. This project is scheduled to come up on a 28-hectare campus at Chandrapur Forest on the Chandrapur Mul state highway. It will be named as Chandrapur Forest Academy. An architectural firm in Pune has designed the campus plan. There will be 23 different courses on forest management, forest training among others. The training courses are designed for different groups like corporate training, schools and colleges, panchayat raj among others. The courses designed are from a single day to three months and even longer. There will introductory courses while in-detail courses in forestry. The capacity of the training institute will be around 450 trainees per day which includes their stay too. Minister of finance, planning and forest department Sudhir Mungantiwar wishes to make this academy as one of the premier institutes which will train all cadres of the forest department.   This institute will be second such academy in Maharashtra adter one in Kundal located in Sangli.