ICT Initiatives in

Kerala Forest Department

Presented byDr A K Bhardwaj IFS

APCCF (FMIS)Kerala Forest Department

Kerala – At a glance

LATITUDE 80 18’ & 120 48’ North

LONGITUDE 740 52’ & 770 22’ East

TOTAL AREA38863 SQ KM

FOREST AREA11264.5168 SQ KM

28. 98%

Forest Area Total Area

Name Number of Units

Tiger Reserves 2

National Parks 6

Wildlife Sanctuaries 15

Circles 13

Divisions 70

Ranges 200

Kerala – At a glance

KFD – At a glancePrincipal Chief Conservators - 4

Addl Principal Chief Conservators - 7

Chief Conservators - 3

Conservators - 3

Dy Conservators - 28

Asst Conservators -89

Range Officers - 177

Ministerial Staff - 1610

Protective Staff - 2760

TOTAL - 5709

Computerisation in KFD

• Large scale computerisation in KFD was taken up during the World Bank aided Kerala Forestry Project (1998-2003)

Presently• All offices from Forest Headquarters

to Range Offices having Computers.• All Officers from PCCF upto ACFs

being supplied with Laptops• All Offices upto Range Offices has

Broadband Connectivity

G2C

G2B G2G

FMISWebsite

m-Governance

FMISGIS

FMSSPARK

CEMOSFRA

Twenty Point Programme

Wildlife Crime Database

FMISm - Governance

KFD – Various Sectors and Software Applications

KFD – Core Applications

Transparency Oriented• FMIS• WEB PORTAL• m -GOVERNANCE• IDEAS• e-PROCUREMENT

Efficiency Oriented• GIS• FMIS• MAS• FMS• SPARK• 20 POINT PROGRAMME

KFD – Core Software Applications

FMIS (FOREST MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM)

Consists of 13 Modules covering almost all aspects of Forest resource Management. (The application which was earlier on a standalone architecture is now being migrated to online system)

MAS(MONTHLY ACCOUNTS SYSTEM)

For creating all the reports of Forest Monthly Accounting. Being used by all the 101 Account rendering offices

SPARK(SERVICE & PAYROLL ADMINISTRATIVE REPOSITORY FOR KERALA)

For generating salary bill, leave management etc. Being used by all Departments of the State

EMLI(EFFECTIVE MANAGEMENT OF LoC ISSUANCE)

For submitting consolidated Budget requirement to Government and for issuance of LoC

20 POINT PROGRAMME

Online data capture for physical and financial progress of works undertaken under the Twenty Point Programme

GIS Database 25 Thematic layers being prepared.

FMS(FOREST MOBILITY SOLUTION)

KFD has procured around 35 PDAs on a pilot basis. The Solution includes realtime data transfer from PDAs to the Server (using GPRS facility). The areas covered include Offence, Forest Fire, realtime tracking etc

DVMS(DEPARTMENTAL VEHICLE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM)

A Database of all the Vehicles in the Department

FRA(FOREST RIGHTS ACT)

A database of Title deeds issued as per Forest Rights Act

SC / ST STATISTICS A database of the SC/ST officers in the Department

STEP(SYSTEM FOR TICKETING AT ECOTOURISM POINTS)

An application for issuing Tickets for various activities in Ecotourism Centres.

CEMOS(CAPTIVE ELEPHANT MONITORING SYSTEM)

Database of Captive elephants. All details in the Data Book of captive elephants

KFD – Core Software Applications (contd’…)

FMIS – 13 Modules and point of Data entry

Name of ModulePoint of data entry

Range Division Circle HQ

NATURAL FOREST MANAGEMENT (NFS)

CIVIL INFRASTRUCTURE (CIS)

STORES, TOOLS & PLANTS (STP)

PLANTATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

OFFENCE INFORMATION SYSTEM

COURT CASE MONITORING

INDUSTRIAL RAW MATERIAL (IRM)

SALES MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

PROGRESS REPORT SYSTEM (PRM)

PARTICIPATORY FOREST MANAGEMENT (PFM)

FIRE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

RESEARCH PROJECT SYSTEM (RPM)

SOCIAL FORESTRY & NURSERY MANAGEMENT

FMIS Offence Module - Screenshot

FMIS Offence Module – Screenshot of Report -Offence

FMIS Fire Module – Screenshot of Report

FMS – Screenshot of Track

GIS – Layers being developed (25 layers)

State Boundary

District Boundary

Taluk Boundary

Village Boundary

Panchayat Boundary

Division Boundary

Range Boundary

Station/ Section

Boundary

Beat Boundary

RF / VF Boundary

Road River/ Canal Water body Watershed Boundary Rail

Electric Lines Places Hill Points Plantations Enclosures/

Estates

Tribal Settlements

Forest Headquarte

rs

Forest Infrastructur

eLease Area Forest Type/

Density

MAP DEVELOPED BY GIS WING KANTHALLOOR FOREST STATIONMARAYUR SANDAL DIVISION

DEM OF PARAMBIKULAM WILDLIFE SANCTUARY

MAP DEVELOPED BY GIS WING

ACHIEVEMENTS…

INFRASTRUCTURE

1. Hardware for all Offices is in place2. Core applications is in place3. Connectivity either through KSWAN or BSNL Broadband in Place

GIS

1. Administrative Maps up to section level completed2. Atlases and Pocket maps being issued to field staff3. Layouts of Tribal settlements completed

• Online Issuance of NOC for transportation of elephants

• Online Issuance of Cutting Permission• Online Issuance of NOC for Wood based Industries

Online Citizen Centric Services

• Offences booked• Fire Incidences reported

Integration of FMIS with Web Portal

• Large scale use of Forest Mobility Solution

Forest Mobility Solution

FUTURE PLANS

• Updation of data using high resolution satellite images to be procured from NRSA

• Introducing Web based GIS software /Interactive GIS

• Project on preparation of contour digitization , vegetative classification and Forest type maps

• Procurement of Survey of India Toposheets of 1: 25000 scale for entire Kerala hard copy and also in digital formats.

• GIS database for Vested Forests, Ecologically fragile areas and Plantations of Kerala is proposed to be digitized.

• Forest Type/Density mapping using Remote Sensing data of NRSA for the entire Kerala is proposed.

• Updating of forest boundary and forest cover in the maps prepared in GIC using Google Earth.

GIS

FUTURE PLANS