• Tending of areas under regenerations and weeding young plants wherever necessary.
• Tending of plantations. It is Beat Guard's business to attend to the above works without the receipt of any further orders. When any expenditure on these is necessary he will report and obtain his Range Officer's sanction through the Forester.

ii. Beat Forest Guard under orders of the Range Officer or Forester will generally carry out repairs and ensure maintenance of roads, boundary pillars and building in his beats.

iii. Beat Forest Guard is responsible for the custody of all Government stores, tools, and timber deposited in his charge, and also for the protection of the forests, wildlife and property like plantations, roads, buildings and wells etc. of his beat. It is his duty to prevent damage being done to the forests and should any be done forthwith to apprehend the offender. He will make it his business to obtain knowledge of everything which takes place in his beat and no excuse of ignorance will be accepted. The rules for compounding forest offences must be strictly observed.

iv. It is the Forest Guard's duty to see that the provision under the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972 and rules framed thereunder are observed and to put a stop to illegal shooting and trapping.

v. He is to know the limits of his charge thoroughly for which purpose he will be supplied with a copy of the map in a convenient scale.

vi. He should prevent encroachment, prevent his beat forests against injury from fire or other causes and prevent forest offences. Failure to be fully acquainted with the beat within a month of taking charge will render him liable for departmental proceedings.

vii. He is to patrol the forest to prevent offences.

viii. Normally it is the duty of the Beat Forest Guard to supervise the work of the forest contractors and Agents appointed by Government to deal with forest produce within his jurisdiction and see that they work according to rules.

ix. He will maintain an order book supplied to him in which will be entered all orders or instructions of his superiors that he may receive. He must have the book always with him when on duty and must produce it for record of orders at the spot. The order book shall be handed over to his successor on relief.

3) Details of Service rendered:

   Over the years, forests in the country have suffered serious depletion due to relentless pressures arising from  ever-increasing demand for fuel-wood, fodder, timber and non timber products; inadequacy of protection measures; diversion of forest lands to non-forest uses without ensuring compensatory afforestation and essential environmental safeguards; and the tendency to look upon forests as revenue earning resources. Thus, forest conservation has become more and more challenging for the Forest Department. Hence forest conservation includes preservation, bio-diversity conservation, forest maintenance, sustainable utilization, forest restoration, forest up-gradation in term of density an enhancement of the natural resources for betterment of environment.

   Details of services rendered by the Forest Department may be summarized in the following manner.

i. With respect to essential of Forest Management:

• existing forests and forest lands have been fully protected and their productivity improved by the Department;
• the network of national parks, sanctuaries, biosphere reserves  and other protected areas have been strengthened and extended adequately for conservation of total biological diversity;
• the programme of afforestation have been intensified with special emphasis on augmenting production to meet the requirement of the rural people;
• protection, improvement and production enhancement of minor forest produce have been taken into consideration to generate employment and income for tribal population and other communities residing in and around the forests.