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Steering Committee

 

i.

Chief Secretary

Chairperson, ex officio;

ii.

Additional Chief Secretary / Principal Secretary / Secretary, Environment and Forests Department

Member, ex officio;

iii.

Additional Chief Secretary / Principal Secretary / Secretary, Finance Department

Member, ex officio;

iv.

Additional Chief Secretary / Principal Secretary / Secretary, Planning, Development, and Special Initiatives Department

Member, ex officio;

v.

Additional Chief Secretary / Principal Secretary / Secretary, Rural Development and Panchayat Raj Department

Member, ex officio;

vi.

Additional Chief Secretary / Principal Secretary / Secretary, Revenue and Disaster Management Department

Member, ex officio;

vii.

Agricultural Production Commissioner & Additional Chief Secretary / Principal Secretary / Secretary, Agriculture Department

Member, ex officio;

viii.

Additional Chief Secretary / Principal Secretary / Secretary, Adi Dravidar and Tribal Welfare Department

Member, ex officio;

ix.

Additional Chief Secretary / Principal Secretary / Secretary, Information Technology Department

Member, ex officio;

x.

Principal Chief Conservator of Forests (Head of Forest Force)

Member, ex officio;

xi.

Principal Chief Conservator of Forests and Chief Wildlife Warden

Member, ex officio;

xii.

Additional Principal Chief Conservator of Forests (FCA) (Nodal Officer, Forest (Conservation) Act, 1980)

Member, ex officio;

xiii.

Deputy Director General of Forests (Central), Government of India, Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change, Regional Office (South Eastern Zone), Chennai (Head of concerned regional office of Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change)

Member, ex officio;

xiv.

Chief Conservator of Forests (P&D) (Nodal Officer, State Forest Development Agency)

Member, ex officio;

xv.

Mr. B. Pushpakumar, Trichugadi Village, Iduhatty Post, Nilgiris District, Ooty-643002. (expert on tribal matters / representative of tribal communities)

Member

xvi.

Additional Principal Chief Conservator of Forests (Compensatory Afforestation Fund Management and Planning Authority and Forest Settlement) (Chief Executive Officer, Tamil Nadu Compensatory Afforestation Fund Management and Planning Authority)      

Member Secretary, ex officio;

 The role of the Steering Committee, as defined in the G.O., is as follows:

      i.        Scrutinise and approve with such amendments as it may deem fit and proper the annual plan of operations prepared by the executive committee of such State Authority and send the same to the executive committee of the National Authority for final approval;

    ii.        Monitor the progress of the utilisation of funds released from the State Fund;

   iii.        Review reports on decision taken by executive committee including investment decisions;

   iv.        Approve, subject to prior concurrence of the State Government, proposals formulated by the executive committee for creation of posts in the State Authority;

    v.        Approve annual report of the State Authority and send the same to the State Government to lay it, each year, in each House of the State Legislature;

   vi.        Ensure inter-departmental coordination

  vii.        Meet at least once in every three months, at such places and shall observe the rules and procedures in regards to transaction of business at its meeting, including the quorum thereat, as prescribed in the Compensatory Afforestation Fund Rules, 2018.