Annual Progress Report on Forest Administration in the Presidency of Bengal for the year 1919-20

No progress is reported in the settlement of the Khairbari Jote in the Jalpaiguri Division and of the Hathipotha extension to Sachaphu in the Buxa Division. [...] The discrepancies in the boundary between the Darjeeling and Jalpaiguri districts where the boundary crosses the Lethi river as shown in the settlement map of Jalpaiguri were reconciled during the year. [...] Of the permanent buildings the most important were the construction of a rest-house at Balaoara in the Buxa Division and of an office and station o'fficers' quarters at the Fringkheong toll 'station in the Chittagong Hill Tracts Division. [...] The customary protective measures against fire were adopted in the Singalila and Tista-Takdah Ranges in Darjeeling and in the plains forests of the Duars and the Darjeeling Terai. [...] The complete success in protecting the Kurseong Forests is most The principal fires of the year occurred in the Buxa Division ; 910 acres were burnt in the North Borojhar Range and 1 450 acres in the Haldibari Range.