Pawan calls for enhanced surveillance to combat red sanders smuggling
Andhra Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Pawan Kalyan has ordered a crackdown on red sanders smuggling using drone surveillance and advanced technology. He emphasized a zero-tolerance policy to dismantle smuggling networks and recover stolen timber across multiple states.
Why it matters
This initiative highlights the government's effort to curb illegal natural resource extraction and protect biodiversity through modern enforcement methods.
Deputy Chief Minister and Minister for Environment and Forests K. Pawan Kalyan called for enhanced surveillance on the smuggling of red sanders by deploying drones and other latest technologies, and stringent action against those plundering the precious wood.
He instructed that the kingpins be apprehended so that the illegal activity would come to a halt.
Addressing a review meeting on the protection of red sanders at his camp office on Thursday, Mr. Kalyan ordered that efforts be made to retrieve the smuggled wood from wherever it was hidden in the country, and that the smuggling networks be dismantled down to their roots through a zero-tolerance approach.
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