Mysuru: With the staff standing with theirs heads bowed down at the four corners of the Martyr’s Memorial at Late Venkataswamy Park, opposite Aranya Bhavan and firing three shots in the air, to show respect to Martyrs, tributes were paid to Forest Department personnel who had laid down their lives in the line of duty, to observe National Forest Martyrs’ Day this morning.
Additional Principal Chief Conservator of Forests (APCCF) Jagath Ram, who was chief guest, recalled the sacrifices made by the Forest staff in safeguarding the natural wealth and said that Forest Martyrs’ Day is being observed to remember and give respects to all those who had laid down their lives while on duty. He said that it was one’s duty to remember them daily and not rrestrict itto occasions like Martyrs’ Day, he added.
