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40 girls recruited as forest guards
Our Correspondent

Hoshiarpur, June 8
As many as 173 young candidates, including 40 girls, joined the Punjab Forest Department as security guards after undergoing one- month induction training at the Police Recruits Training Centre (PRTC), Jahan Khelan, today.

Chief Conservator of Forest, Punjab, HS Gujral, who was the chief guest on the occasion, took salute of the passing-out parade of the first batch of the forest guards.

Addressing the gathering, Gujral said it was a matter of great pride that for the first time 40 girls had been recruited as forest guards. He said the Forest Department would recruit 230 new forest guards very soon.

To raise the state forest to 15 per cent from 7 per cent a special campaign would be launched in the next 10 years in Punjab especially for Hoshiarpur and Fazilka, for which the Punjab Chief Minister had formulated a special plan.

Later, the passing-out forest guards presented a colourful cultural programme to mark the occasion