Indian Forest Service (IFS) officers from different cadres and states like Arunachal Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Odisha, Chhattisgarh, Haryana, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra and Uttarakhand are attending at Katra in Jammu a five-day training program on ‘Disaster management and risk reduction initiatives through forestry and others.’

The training programme is eighth in a series organized by the School of Business, Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University (SMVDU).

Funded by the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change, Government of India, the program is exclusively targeted at IFS officers.