HP to restore degraded forests, identify land banks

New initiatives for restoring degraded landscapes will be taken up underHimachal Pradesh State Compensatory Afforestation Fund Management and Planning Authority(HP Campa) in the entire state in this fiscal, chief ministerSukhvinder Singh Sukhusaid on Monday late evening. Instead of raising plantations in a sporadic manner, it should be done in a planned manner on barren hills and other large open patches, keeping in mind climatic conditions and dedicated staff would be deployed to take care of plantations in a responsible and accountable manner, he said while presiding over the first meeting of the governing body of HP Campa).