Honorary wildlife wardens appointed

SILCHAR, Dec 23 – The Governor of Assam recently appointed honorary wildlife wardens in all the 23 districts of the State for the period of two years in exercising of the powers conferred under Section 4 (1)(b) (bb) of the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972. The primary responsibility of these wardens will be to assist the District Administration on all aspects relating to wildlife in their respective district. They will, in particular, assist the Divisional Forest Officer on the matters such as enforcement of Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972, Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1960, creating awareness among the local people on wildlife matters, issues relating to the inter-face between wildlife and people, specially in respect of National Parks and Sanctuaries etc. The appointed wildlife wardens are Achinta Rup Basumatary (Kokrajhar), Bhargav Kumar Das (Darrang), Karuna Dutta Choudhury (Barpeta), Aloke Goswami (Nagaon), Dipak Kathar (Morigaon), Shanta Sharma (Jorhat), Rishi Das (Tinsukia), Girban Biswas (Cachar), Dayananda Bharali (Sivasagar), Bhola Baruah (Golaghat), Dr Bijoy Kumar Deb (Karimganj), Satananda Bhattacharjee (Hailakandi), RN Sonowal (Dibrugarh),Gautam Terang (Karbi Anglong), AK Padmapati (Sonitpur), Soumyadip Dutta (Dhubri), Parimal Das (Bongaigaon), Dipak Kalita (Nalbari), Progress Medok (Dhemaji), Bikul Goswami (Lakhimpur), Bhaba Kalita (Kamrup), Tridip Narayan Choudhury (Goalpara) and Dwizen Khersa (NC Hills).