Lok Sabha Question No. 732 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2017-02-07
Subject: Losses due to Wildfire
Ministry: ENVIRONMENT,  FORESTS AND CLIMATE CHANGE
Asked by: NEELAM SONKER

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

## MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT, FOREST AND CLIMATE CHANGE

## LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION No. 732

TO BE ANSWERED ON 07.02.2017

## Losses due to Wildfire

## 732.  SHRIMATI NEELAM SONKER:

Will the Minister of ENVIRONMENT, FOREST AND CLIMATE CHANGE be pleased to state:

- (a) the  names of the States  in  which  wildfire  broke  out  in  forest  areas  during  the  last  two years and the current year;
- (b) the reasons for the wildfire and the size of forest area in which loss of life and property occurred due to the wildfire;
- (c) whether the environment loss due to wild fire in forest areas has been assessed;
- (d) if so, the details thereof; and
- (e) the steps taken/proposed to be taken by the Government to compensate the loss of forest area due to wildfire?

## ANSWER

MINISTER OF STATE (INDEPENDENT CHARGE) FOR ENVIRONMENT, FOREST AND CLIMATE CHANGE (SHRI ANIL MADHAV DAVE)

- (a) This Ministry does not maintain the details in respect of number of forest fires. The  State/UT  wise  number  of  forest  fire  alerts  reported  by  Forest  Survey  of India,  Dehradun  in  the  last  three  years  is  at  Annexure-I.  Forest  fires  are generally reported from most of the States.
- (b) Most  of  the  forest  fires  are  man-made.  The  State  /  UT  wise  details  of  forest areas affected by forest fires are not maintained at the level of Ministry.
- (c) & (d) No such assessment of the environment loss due to wild fire has been done by the Ministry.
- (e) There are no specific steps taken / proposed to be taken by the Government as such to compensate the loss of forest area due to wildfire.

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## ANNEXURE-I

## ANNEXURE REFFERED TO REPLY OF PART (A) OF THE LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 732 DUE FOR 07.02.2017  REGARDING LOSSES DUE TO WILDFIRE ASKED BY SHRIMATI NEELAM SONKER

## Table showing State / UT wise number of forest fires alerts in last three years.

| S. No.   | State/UTs            | 2014   | 2015   | 2016   |
|----------|----------------------|--------|--------|--------|
| 1        | Andaman &Nicobar Is. | 96     | 1      | 24     |
| 2        | Andhra Pradesh       | 2,458  | 1,075  | 1,699  |
| 3        | Arunachal Pradesh    | 535    | 358    | 293    |
| 4        | Assam                | 2,536  | 1,656  | 1,766  |
| 5        | Bihar                | 140    | 45     | 321    |
| 6        | Chandigarh           | -      | -      | -      |
| 7        | Chhattisgarh         | 1,018  | 1,272  | 2,808  |
| 8        | Dadra &Nagar Haveli  | 1      | -      | -      |
| 9        | Daman &Diu           | -      | -      | -      |
| 10       | Delhi                | -      | -      | 2      |
| 11       | Goa                  | 3      | -      | 10     |
| 12       | Gujarat              | 74     | 117    | 262    |
| 13       | Haryana              | 5      | 6      | 43     |
| 14       | Himachal Pradesh     | 32     | 22     | 199    |
| 15       | Jammu &Kashmir       | 74     | 13     | 217    |
| 16       | Jharkhand            | 202    | 457    | 740    |
| 17       | Karnataka            | 424    | 295    | 831    |
| 18       | Kerala               | 114    | 91     | 165    |
| 19       | Lakshadweep          | -      | -      | -      |
| 20       | Madhya Pradesh       | 534    | 294    | 2,675  |
| 21       | Maharashtra          | 702    | 721    | 1,874  |
| 22       | Manipur              | 1,774  | 1,286  | 1,105  |
| 23       | Meghalaya            | 1,123  | 1,373  | 966    |
| 24       | Mizoram              | 2,189  | 2,468  | 1,318  |
| 25       | Nagaland             | 886    | 722    | 678    |
| 26       | Odisha               | 1,904  | 1,467  | 2,763  |
| 27       | Puducherry           | -      | -      | -      |
| 28       | Punjab               | 20     | 7      | 45     |
| 29       | Rajasthan            | 53     | 90     | 66     |
| 30       | Sikkim               | -      | 3      | -      |
| 31       | Tamil Nadu           | 284    | 95     | 113    |
| 32       | Telangana            | -      | 1,052  | 1,154  |
| 33       | Tripura              | 1,160  | 476    | 346    |
| 34       | Uttar Pradesh        | 218    | 130    | 691    |
| 35       | Uttarakhand          | 379    | 207    | 1,501  |
| 36       | West Bengal          | 116    | 138    | 142    |
|          | Grand Total          | 19,054 | 15,937 | 24,817 |