Wednesday, 13 April 2022 | PNS | Dehradun
On the second day of the two-day study tour of the department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Personnel, Public Grievances, Law and Justice to Mussoorie and Dehradun, the committee members reached the Forest Research Institute (FRI) here on Tuesday. The committee is headed by Rajya Sabha member Sushil Kumar Modi and consists of parliamentarians Vivek K Tankha, P Wilson, Kanakamedala Ravindra Kumar, Pradeep Kumar Chaudhary, Kanumuru Raghu Rama Krishna Raju, Suresh Kumar Pujari, Upendra Singh Rawat and Sandhya Ray besides four officers of the Rajya Sabha secretariat.
The committee held a meeting in FRI wherein heads of six organisations- Punjab National Bank, Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited, CSIR-Indian Institute of Petroleum, Indian Institute of Remote Sensing, Forest Survey of India and Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education presented the reports of their respective organisations. This was followed by detailed discussion.
After the conclusion of the meeting, the committee members visited the various museums of FRI. The members took keen interest in the museums and appreciated the rich collection of specimens preserved in them.
