MoEF Specifies 19 Integrated Regional Offices with Jurisdictions Over 33
States Covering Five MoEF Agencies from 1st October
With a view to achieving outcomes related to the mandates of
Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF&CC)
in an improved, timely and effective manner, and for this purpose to further
enhance its outreach to stakeholders, undertake coordinated action and optimize
the utilization of available resources, MoEFCC has
approved establishment of 19 Integrated Regional Offices (IROs) of the MoEF&CC. These IROs will start functioning from October
1st, 2020.
The IROs will be established though redeployment of human
and other resources available with 10 Regional Offices of ROHQ Division, 4
Regional Offices of Forest Survey of India (FSI), 3 Regional Centre of National
Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA), 4 Regional Offices of Central Zoo
Authority (CZA) and 5 Regional Offices & 3 Sub-regional Offices of Wildlife
Crime Control Bureau (WCCB) in an integrated manner, and their further
strengthening. Thus, each IRO shall have representation from existing Regional
Office/Regional Centre of MoEF&CC, FSI, NTCA, CZA
and WCCB as available to them from time to time.
The headquarters and jurisdictions of the 19 IROs will be as
under:
|
Sl.
No. |
Headquarter
of IRO |
States
and UTs under jurisdiction |
|
(i) |
Shillong |
Manipur,
Meghalaya, Mizoram, Tripura |
|
(ii) |
Ranchi |
Jharkhand,
Bihar |
|
(iii) |
Bhubaneswar |
Odisha |
|
(iv) |
Bengaluru |
Karnataka,
Kerala, Goa, Lakshadweep |
|
(v) |
Chennai |
Tamil
Nadu, Puducherry, A&N Islands |
|
(vi) |
Lucknow |
Uttar
Pradesh |
|
(vii) |
Bhopal |
Madhya
Pradesh |
|
(viii) |
Nagpur |
Maharashtra |
|
(ix) |
Chandigarh |
Chandigarh,
Haryana, Punjab |
|
(x) |
Dehradun |
Uttarakhand |
|
(xi) |
Jaipur |
Rajasthan,
Delhi |
|
(xii) |
Gandhi
Nagar |
Gujarat,
Daman & Diu, Dadra & Nagar Haveli |
|
(xiii) |
Vijayawada |
Andhra
Pradesh |
|
(xiv) |
Raipur |
Chhattisgarh |
|
(xv) |
Hyderabad |
Telangana |
|
(xvi) |
Shimla |
Himachal
Pradesh |
|
(xvii) |
Kolkata |
West
Bengal, Sikkim |
|
(xviii) |
Guwahati |
Assam,
Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh |
|
(xix) |
Jammu |
Ladakh,
Jammu & Kashmir |
The head of each of the IRO will be called “Regional
Officer” of MoEF&CC. Each of the above 19
Integrated Regional Offices (IROs) shall work as an integrated regional unit of
the MoEF&CC in achieving the outcomes related to
the mandate of the Ministry.