The government is set to introduce Global Positioning System (GPS) to monitor the activities of forest officers and for forest management through the satellite device.
A three-day training programme on GSP has started in this regard from Tuesday morning in Chadpai Range office in the eastern Sundarbans to train the officers about the new system named "Seals," according to banglanews.
Md Habibur Rahman, an MIS consultant, and Md Khalilur Rahman, assistant conservator of forests, have been conducting the programme.
Khalilur said: "The European Union is funding the project to protect the Sundarbans. It will be implemented soon."
Chowdhury Amir Hossain, divisional forest officer of the eastern Sundarbans, said officers would be provided with a modern machine so that their movements can be recorded. High officials of the forest department would monitor them.
Through this project, the Sundarbans can be protected from robbers, illegal fisherman and hunters, he added.
