CGPSC ACF/FRO case studies
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The CGPSC ACF/FRO examination is the Chhattisgarh Public Service Commission's recruitment route into the state forest service, filling the posts of Assistant Conservator of Forests and Forest Range Officer. It suits forestry, agriculture, botany and zoology graduates, and also general graduates who can compete on the general studies paper, because the syllabus deliberately mixes a broad state-and-national general awareness component with a hard technical core in silviculture, wildlife management, forest law and forest utilisation. The CGPSC ACF/FRO case studies are 5 cases and about 4,922 words.
1Regeneration felling in a burnt, over-grazed sal coupe
Compartment 12 of a sal-dominated reserve forest in the Raipur–Dhamtari belt covers 250 ha. The sanctioned working plan prescribes selection-cum-improvement felling with an annual coupe of 25 ha.
974 words, about 5 min2Mortality on a highway and rail corridor through elephant habitat
A 24 km stretch of two-lane state highway and an adjoining broad-gauge railway line pass through about 90 sq km of elephant habitat in northern Chhattisgarh. In three years, 11 elephants have died: seven on the railway and four on the highway.
947 words, about 5 min3Seized teak logs, an obliterated hammer mark and a phone call
On 14 February your beat guard stops a truck at a check naka carrying 42 teak logs, roughly 8.2 cum, with no transit pass. The driver produces an unstamped permission letter from a patta holder and says the logs came from private land.
1,078 words, about 5 min4Acidic upland soils, a dry spell and a reluctant village
In a 40-household village on the Bastar plateau, upland paddy on 3–5 per cent slopes yields 1.8 t/ha against 3.2 t/ha in adjoining lowland. Twelve soil samples show pH 4.9–5.2, organic carbon 0.35 per cent, low available nitrogen, medium phosphorus at about 18 kg/ha P2O5, low potassium at about 110 kg/ha K2O, and high exchangeable aluminium.
973 words, about 5 min5A grassland offered as compensatory afforestation land
A 500 ha degraded forest block in Sarguja is proposed as compensatory afforestation land for a coal block in the same district. Ground truthing shows open savanna woodland with about 30 per cent Lantana camara cover, 20 per cent bare eroded soil, shallow soil over murum, patches of good grass, a resident group of chital, three grassland-specialist bird species, and two seasonal streams.
950 words, about 5 min