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Centre forms expert team to help Odisha Govt to control forest fire incidents

<span style="color: #222222;">Centre has formed a three member expert team to help the Odisha Government control the unprecedented fire incidents in the state.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">It follows the meeting between Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Prakash Javadekar and Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan and other Members of Parliament from Odisha in New Delhi today.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">AIR correspondent reports, Union Minister Prakash Javadekar, in a tweet, has said that the committee of experts would be coming to Odisha to give technical advice and help the state forest department in effective management of forest fire incidents in the region.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The team would be working till the state attains a normal situation with respect to the fire incidents.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The minister has also informed that he himself will monitor everyday map showing forest fire detection in the entire state of Odisha and also a separate map showing fire detection in the Similipal Tiger Reserve and Biosphere Reserve.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Meanwhile, the task force on the forest fire, constituted by the Government of Odisha a couple of days ago, has reported that the ongoing forest fire in the state has been contained to a great extent.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">In an official release, the Principal Chief Conservator of Forest, Odisha has said that the points of forest fire numbering about 290 as on Tuesday has come down to 268 with 24 points detected in Similipal in Mayurbhanj district of the state.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />''  

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