All regional offices of the Ministry brought under one roof

All regional offices of the Ministry brought under one roof

19 Integrated Regional Offices to start functioning from 1st October

Posted On: 18 AUG 2020 4:58PM by PIB Delhi

With a view to achieving outcomes related to the mandates of Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF&CC) in an improved, timely and effective manner, and for this purpose to further enhance its outreach to stakeholders, undertake coordinated action and optimize the utilization of available resources, MoEFCC has approved establishment of 19 Integrated Regional Offices (IROs) of the MoEF&CC. These IROs will start functioning from October 1st, 2020.

The IROs will be established though redeployment of human and other resources available with 10 Regional Offices of ROHQ Division, 4 Regional Offices of Forest Survey of India (FSI), 3 Regional Centre of National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA), 4 Regional Offices of Central Zoo Authority (CZA) and 5 Regional Offices & 3 Sub-regional Offices of Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB) in an integrated manner, and their further strengthening. Thus, each IRO shall have representation from existing Regional Office/Regional Centre of MoEF&CC, FSI, NTCA, CZA and WCCB as available to them from time to time.

The headquarters and jurisdictions of the 19 IROs will be as under:

Sl. No.	Headquarter of IRO	States and UTs under jurisdiction
(i)	Shillong	Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Tripura
(ii)	Ranchi	Jharkhand, Bihar
(iii)	Bhubaneswar	Odisha
(iv)	Bengaluru	Karnataka, Kerala, Goa, Lakshadweep
(v)	Chennai	Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, A&N Islands
(vi)	Lucknow	Uttar Pradesh
(vii)	Bhopal	Madhya Pradesh
(viii)	Nagpur	Maharashtra
(ix)	Chandigarh	Chandigarh, Haryana, Punjab
(x)	Dehradun	Uttarakhand
(xi)	Jaipur	Rajasthan, Delhi
(xii)	Gandhi Nagar	Gujarat, Daman & Diu, Dadra & Nagar Haveli
(xiii)	Vijayawada	Andhra Pradesh
(xiv)	Raipur	Chhattisgarh
(xv)	Hyderabad	Telangana
(xvi)	Shimla	Himachal Pradesh
(xvii)	Kolkata	West Bengal, Sikkim
(xviii)	Guwahati	Assam, Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh
(xix)	Jammu	Ladakh, Jammu & Kashmir

The head of each of the IRO will be called “Regional Officer” of MoEF&CC. Each of the above 19 Integrated Regional Offices (IROs) shall work as an integrated regional unit of the MoEF&CC in achieving the outcomes related to the mandate of theMinistry.