2. The necessity for a working-plan is a point on which I presume it is unnecessary 

 to touch. The present working-plan has been prepared so that no one may be obliged to 

 go more than 4 miles for his wood and grass and no village requiring grazing to drive the 

 cattle out beyond that distance. I would remark that if grass is available nearer a village, 

 the villagers would be put to unnecessary inconvenience in having to drive their cattle 4 

 miles away every day. But only 11,291 acres and the areas enumerated in paragraph 89 of 

 the working-plan will be closed to grazing, and the minimum area open to grazing will be 

 453>535 acres. The provision for grazing will therefore probably be ample. 



3. Arrangements are to be made for the formation of a forest village (vide para- 

 graph 100). I will inspect the site in the cold weather on my march from Lanji Imalia to 

 Balakote. 



4. It is not mentioned (so far as I can see) as to whether the cutting of timber in the 

 coupes is to be allowed during the rains or not. 



5. The plan prescribes the maintenance of double control books. One set is pre- 

 scribed in the Forest Department Code and the other in the form prescribed by the working- 

 plan (vide paragraph 107). This will entail a great increase in office work, which is already 

 very heavy and may hamper the due inspection of the forests. 



Secretariat Press, Nagpur : T. P. R., 1-8-190175. 



