Pib dehradunNirupam Chakma, a prestigious member of the National Scheduled Tribes Commission (NCST), visited the Forest Research Institute (FRI), Dehradun on May 28, 2025. The objective of this go to was to evaluation the implementation of safety measures for Scheduled Tribes (ST) inside the institute. The assembly was co-headed by the Director of Forest Research Institute and senior officers of Forest Research Institute and NCST participated on this assembly. Highlighting the organizational construction by the Forest Research Institute Director, a complete presentation was given by giving detailed details about the standing and illustration of ST workers inside the institute.
After the assembly, the Honorable NCST member together with the Institute Director and different senior officers visited numerous museums of the institute. The delegation expressed deep reward for the broader heritage assortment of the institute and acknowledged the significance of the institute in preserving India’s wealthy forestry heritage. The Commission additionally visited the ‘Herberium’ and Zillarium, the place India and the world have demonstrated the wonderful vegetative number of India by wonderful herberium collections of untamed bushes and vegetation,
The herberium assortment consists of three,50,000 samples. The Commission was fascinated about realizing about ‘Sanjeevani Booti’, and a pattern from Bundelkhand area was additionally displayed in entrance of him. During the ‘Zillarium’ tour, 20,000 samples of wooden from India and 45 different nations have been proven to him. Information about India’s costliest wood species in addition to necessary industrial wooden was additionally shared with the Commission, together with pink sandalwood, sandalwood, teak, sal, rosewood and many others. The Commission additionally visited forest enrichment, timber, non-hover forest merchandise and forest insect science museums. Senior scientists of the institute spoke about numerous demonstrations saved in these museums. In his closing speech, he thanked the National Scheduled Tribes Commission for the knowledge and wealthy expertise given by the Director and Employees of the Forest Research Institute.