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    Dr. Sarkar holds various key positions during his career as IFS Officer. His cadre was allotted to Tamil Nadu by the Government of India.

    His first posting was as trainee Assistant Conservator of Forests in Dindugul district and then posted as the District Forest Officer in the same district for a short stint and got transferred to Social Forestry Division, Trichy. Carried out afforestation work in Tank beds, Poromboke Hillocks, Fallow lands to increase the Forest cover of the country. Didyield assessment and harvesting of matured crops. Bydoing proper administration and man management of the Division, he contributed to raise hugegovt. revenue from social forestry plantation of Babul / Acacia nilotica. 60% of this revenue was shared with the village Panchayets of the district for their developmental work.

    He was then given the responsibility of serving as the Divisional Manager of the Pandiyar Tea Division as well as the Manager of the Pandiyar Tea Factory in the Nilgiris District. The major activities included the management of tea gardens, tea manufacturing operations, harvesting of tea leaves, administration, manpower management, and welfare work for the workers. He made a special contribution to the welfare of the tea pluckers who were refugees from Ceylon, brought under the Shastri–Srimavo Refugee Treaty. Furthermore, he established two primary schools — one in the Pandiyar Tea Division and the other in the adjacent Devala Tea Division — to provide education for the children of tea workers and to help them avoid daily journeys of 16 to 25 kilometers.

    There was an utter need of Project formulation for Forestry in the Head Quarters during in mid-nineties (1995). So, he was posted as Deputy Conservator of Forests(FEMAS) i.e. Project formulation both of domestic as well as of international level, Evaluation & monitoring of ongoing forestry project in the state were the main activities in the HQ.  During this period, Sri Sarkar carried out significant contribution by drafting Tamil Nadu Afforestation Project, (TAP-I, worth of Rs.500 crores) which was approved & Funded by OECF, JAPAN. This project implemented during 1997 to 2002 in State.

    After completion of about 3 years, he was again posted for field work as the District Forest Officer of Tirunelveli where he continued for more than 3 years and performed challenging job both for protection and also good rapport with District administration. During this period, he perambulated almost entire Western Ghat areas which were within Thirunveli and Kanyakumari districts and evicted all illicit Ganja Cultivation. Protected the Flora & Fauna and all other natural resources of this Division and also to carried out the further regeneration and conservation works.

    After Thirunveli district he was again given the charge of DFO of Dindugul District where he did good protection work and also welfare work, medical camps in Tap programme villages for about 10 months.

    Then, he was selected in all India competition as first batch to undergo for a course of PGPPM (Post Graduation in Public Policy and Management) at IIM Bangalore. He completed of 1 year training at IIM Bangalore, and Syracuse University, USA.  It was a great opportunity to learn strategic management techniques from the management schools. A good dissertation on endemic and threatened medicinal plants of India was submitted as a part this course during this training.  Further, the authorities of the IIM, Bangalore published on of his leading article in the Review Journal of IIM, Bangalore.

    After completion of this training, he has posted as working plan officer Trichy. During this period, he wrote 10 years forestry prescriptions for Madurai Forest Division. Writing of working plan of Madurai Forest division and submitted all Part I, Part II & Part III to the PCCF for its implementation for the period 2005 to 2015 AD.

    He was promoted as Conservator of forests and posted as General Manager of TAFCORN (Tamil Nadu Forest Plantation Forest Corporation), Trichy to assist the Managing Director in Technical, Administration and Financial matter in running corporation. He wrote Management plan of TAPCORN for next 10 years and for field he made project of Site matching clone of Eucalyptus. At the end of this project TAFCORN earned an outstanding profit of Rs. 32 Crores for two consecutive years.

    He took study leave for one year to complete his PhD thesis work on Conservation Management Strategies for Endemic & Threatened Medicinal Plants of Kalakad Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve (KMTR), Southern Western Ghats of Tamil Nadu, India – A Geoinformatics Approach

    Kalakad Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve (KMTR)
    On return from study leave, he was promoted and posted as Chief Conservator of Forests at the Tamil Nadu Forest Training College, Vaigai Dam to conduct various training courses for the personnel working in the Tamil Nadu Forest Department scheduled for the respective year, with the basic objective of enhancing the capabilities and skills of forest personnel for better management of forests. Here, the front-line Forest Guards, numbering around 120 trainees every six months, were trained. He trained over 550 trainee forest guards in one and a half years and converted 200 hectares of barren land into green cover. Besides, overall administration of the training college and implementation of other plan and non-plan schemes were attended to. During this period, he completed his Ph.D. in Botany at Bharathidasan University, Trichy, and his thesis was highly commended.

    During August 2012, Dr. Sarkar was posted as the Working plan officer at Coimbatore to write 10 years forestry prescription plan for Nilgiris North Forest Division. He completed writing of Working plan of Nilgiris North Forest Division. He also coordinated “Status & Distribution Survey of Endemic and Threatened Floral Taxa in Wild in Tamil Nadu” under Tamil Nadu Biodiversity & Greening Project, Administration.

    Subsequential after observing his thesis Government of Tamil Nadu published it as a book on “Management Strategy for Endemic and Threatened Medicinal Plants in India – A Geoinformatics Approach”.

    After reviewing this book, the Government of India published an abridged version titled “Biodiversity Governance for Managing Endemic and Threatened Medicinal Plants in India – A Geoinformatics Approach.”

    Finally, Dr. Sarkar was promoted to the position of Additional Principal Chief Conservator of Forests (PCCF) and later retired. After retirement, Dr. Sarkar founded the Nivedhita Foundation in Trichy.

    Nivedita Foundation

    Dr.Manoj Kumar Sarkar, IFS

    Additional Principal Chief Conservator of Forests (retired)
    Founder

    Dr.Aruna Basu Sarcar, IFS

    Principal Chief Conservator of Forests (Rtd) Chairperson & Managing Trustee

    Dr.A.Murugan, M.sc., Ph.D

    Secretary

    Mr.J. Elangovan

    Join Secretary

    Mrs.P. Uma Devi

    Treasurer

    Author Manoj Kumar Sarkar

    Dr Sarkar did his graduation and post-graduation from the Presidency College of Calcutta University; M.Sc. in Forestry from Indira Gandhi National Forest Academy (IGNFA), Dehra Dun and MBA/PGPPM (Post Graduate in Public Policy Management) from Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore. He was conferred a doctorate degree in Botany from Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu. Read More…

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