ICT Initiatives
in
Kerala Forest Department
Presented by
Dr A K Bhardwaj IFS
APCCF (FMIS)
Kerala Forest Department
Kerala – At a glance
FOREST AREA
11264.5168 SQ KM
28. 98%
TOTAL AREA
38863 SQ KM
Forest Area
Total Area
LATITUDE
80 18’ & 120 48’ North
LONGITUDE
740 52’ & 770 22’ East
Kerala – At a glance
Name
Number of
Units
Tiger Reserves
2
National Parks
6
Wildlife Sanctuaries
15
Circles
13
Divisions
70
Ranges
200
• Large scale computerisation in KFD
was taken up during the World Bank
aided Kerala Forestry Project (19982003)
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
FMIS
m - Governance
FMIS
Website
m-Governance
G2G
FMIS
GIS
FMS
SPARK
CEMOS
FRA
Twenty Point Programme
Wildlife Crime Database
Transparency Oriented
• FMIS
• WEB PORTAL
• m -GOVERNANCE
• IDEAS
• e-PROCUREMENT
Efficiency Oriented
• GIS
• FMIS
• MAS
• FMS
• SPARK
• 20 POINT PROGRAMME
FMIS
(FOREST MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM)
MAS
(MONTHLY ACCOUNTS SYSTEM)
SPARK
(SERVICE & PAYROLL ADMINISTRATIVE
REPOSITORY FOR KERALA)
EMLI
(EFFECTIVE MANAGEMENT OF LoC ISSUANCE)
20 POINT PROGRAMME
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)
For creating all the reports of Forest
Monthly Accounting. Being used by all the
101 Account rendering offices
For generating salary bill, leave
management etc. Being used by all
Departments of the State
For submitting consolidated Budget
requirement to Government and for
issuance of LoC
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
An application for issuing Tickets for various activities in
Ecotourism Centres.
(SYSTEM FOR TICKETING AT
ECOTOURISM POINTS)
CEMOS
(CAPTIVE ELEPHANT MONITORING
SYSTEM)
Database of Captive elephants. All details in the Data Book of
captive elephants
Name of Module
Point of data entry
Range
Division
NATURAL FOREST MANAGEMENT (NFS)
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CIVIL INFRASTRUCTURE (CIS)
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STORES, TOOLS & PLANTS (STP)
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PLANTATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
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OFFENCE INFORMATION SYSTEM
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COURT CASE MONITORING
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INDUSTRIAL RAW MATERIAL (IRM)
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SALES MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
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PROGRESS REPORT SYSTEM (PRM)
Circle
HQ
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PARTICIPATORY FOREST MANAGEMENT (PFM)
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FIRE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
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RESEARCH PROJECT SYSTEM (RPM)
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SOCIAL FORESTRY & NURSERY MANAGEMENT
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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
Headquarters
Forest
Infrastructure
Lease Area
Forest Type/
Density
DEM OF PARAMBIKULAM WILDLIFE SANCTUARY
INFRASTRUCTURE
1. Hardware for all
Offices is in place
2. Core applications is
in place
3. Connectivity either
through KSWAN or
BSNL Broadband in
Place
GIS
1. Administrative Maps
up to section level
completed
2. Atlases and Pocket
maps being issued to
field staff
3. Layouts of Tribal
settlements completed
Online Citizen Centric Services
•Online Issuance of NOC for transportation of elephants
•Online Issuance of Cutting Permission
•Online Issuance of NOC for Wood based Industries
Integration of FMIS with Web Portal
•Offences booked
•Fire Incidences reported
Forest Mobility Solution
•Large scale use of Forest Mobility Solution
GIS
• 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.