Forests within our land along with our cultivated crops and other assets are our responsibility to safeguard from any threat from wilful or natural means. (This includes forest fires, illicit felling, landslides etc.) Securities of these assets including commercial & non commercial forests is the direct responsibility of the estate manager in charge, while the Group General Manager is in overall charge of the entire Group of estates under his purview.

Each division within the estate will have a permanent security tech (ST) to watch over the entire land area of the division while there will be one more ST to secure the new planting/ Bungalows/Factories etc as the case may be.

The estate managers will assist in coordinating these activties in order to ensure safety/protection of all assets (Life & property), NTFP, flora, fauna in the forest & establish law and order on the property.

The procedure

• The Security Techs have been informed about the FSC and the contents of the Forest Policy.

• The Security Techs are responsible for guarding the forest including commercial & non commercial forest.

• The ST will get instructions direct from the Estate Manager.

• The Security Techs will maintain their regular field rounds on a daily basis and any special/urgent matters will be brought to the notice of the Manager. This incudes, any incient of violating of the forest policy, illegal hunting, any form of distruction or forest fires.

• The Security Tech will speak with workers, neighbours etc in collecting / gathering intelligence regarding illegal activities. The Security Techs are not allowed to use fire arms unless special permissions are obtained through relevant authorities.

• The Management and the STs will work closely with the officers of Forest Deartment & goverment officials relevant to these aspects.

• The security techs will make relevant entries in their Security log books that are available in every division and the log books will be available for the Manager at his visits for further action.

• A CAR form will be used for all such incidents which will be filled by the Manager and kept in the monitoring file for evaluation annually.

• The Security Techs will be continuosly trained for this purpose. The training will include handling of situations like, illegal harvesting, illegal hunting, destruction of company property ( encroachment of land ), handling forest fires, gathering intelligence etc.

• ST will also (where relevant) provide security to other assets of the estate.

Limits of authority of the Security Techs

The Security Techs will operate within the prevailing legal system. They will work in harmony with the rest of the workforce and the neighboring community.

Any changes to this policy will be at the discretion of the Board of Management of Lalan rubbers Pvt Ltd., in consultation with the relevant authorities.