Artificial Intelligence (AI) is now being dilapidated to trace and retain watch over wooded space fires in Odisha’s dense wooded space zones, Wooded space, Atmosphere & Climate Commerce Minister Ganesh Ram Singh Khuntia suggested the Assembly on Wednesday.
He said GPS-based fully mostly programs and AI-enabled monitoring tools had been deployed to name fire aspects and alert ground groups in staunch time.
At some stage in the discussion on wildfire administration, the Minister said the new programs had been improving self-discipline response and reducing hurt. He notorious that AI is now helping division officers quit fires in dense wooded space areas, where human surveillance is specific.
Extra, GPS is additionally being employed in tracking the fireplace lines and assisting groups in responding rapidly, he told the Dwelling.
Khuntia added that sure ragged practices unruffled pose challenges.
“Fires are being jam in dense forests for soil fertility,” he said, noting that the apply continues in pockets where group-driven slash burning is followed sooner than seasonal vegetation development.
Including to this, the Minister reported enhancements in plant life and fauna safety. “The mortality rate of animals has decreased, and the incidence of fires in dense forests has advance down,” he stated.
17-Month Wildfire Wound Crosses 4,600 Hectares
Earlier in the day, the Minister briefed the Assembly on the broader scale of wildfire impact all over the thunder. He said Odisha misplaced 4,609.347 hectares of wooded space land to wildfires between July 2024 and December 2025, in retaining with formally recorded incidents.
Odisha’s entire wooded space quilt stands at 52,433.56 sq km, however divisions equivalent to Nabarangpur, Phulbani, Sundargarh, Bolangir, Khariar, Malkangiri and Jeypore luxuriate in reported most critical fire-linked vegetation loss. Natural world regions including Similipal (North and South), Sunabeda and Boudh luxuriate in additionally recorded wide hurt to ground quilt and habitat zones, he said.
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AI Surveillance Also Being Deployed to Curb Illegal Sand Mining
The thunder’s wooded space-fire automation change comes days after the Odisha authorities launched a separate AI-based fully mostly monitoring machine to curb unlawful sand mining, marking the principle coordinated digital enforcement initiative underneath the Division of Steel and Mines.
On November 30, the authorities issued new guidelines mandating AI-powered camera surveillance at river ghats, transit routes and storage aspects for minor minerals. The norms, licensed by the Cabinet, are already in force.
The division said the machine will allow staunch-time monitoring of mining, transportation and stock motion, with cameras equipped for automatic number plate recognition, plug tracking and face reading where required.
