- The Range Officer shall be responsible for overall management of the units and various operations therein as per the work schedule. He shall inter alia perform the following duties in the Range :(i)He shall remain responsible for timely execution of all work in his Range according to work schedule.(ii)He shall ensure completion of repairs and construction of phadies and godowns by 15th March each year.(iii)He shall make funds available to the Foresters for purchasing kendu leaves and disbursing the wages of labourers engaged at the phadies.(iv)He shall disburse salary and wages of staff.(v)He shall supervise purchase of leaves and check each phadi once in every two days, during collection season.(vi)He shall supervise binding and processing centres once every two days during the period of processing and binding.(vii)He shall arrange transport of kendu leaf bags to the Central Godown.(viii)He shall collect reports on Daily Purchase of Kendu Leaves (K.L. Form No.1) and Daily Report (K.L. Form No.2) of each 'Phadi' and submit the Daily Progress Report of the Range in K.L. Form No.3 to the Deputy Conservator of Forests.(ix)He shall submit Daily Progress of bagging and despatch to the Deputy Conservator of Forests daily.(x)He shall submit all other forms and returns prescribed in this Manual.(xi)He shall render accounts to the Divisional Deputy Conservator of Forests (K.L.) for the sum advanced to him.(xii)He shall maintain all prescribed Registers and ensure maintenance of all Register/Returns at the level of phadies and submit extracts of them punctually to proper quarters.(xiii)He shall take adequate steps for achieving the stipulated production and also take steps to increase production in his Range.(xiv)He shall ensure production of quality leaves in the proportion envisaged in the Agreement with the Orissa Forest Corporation Ltd. He shall also ensure production of processed bags according to quality classes stipulated in the Agreement.(xv)He shall ensure timely operations of coppicing, repair and construction of phadies, collection, processing, binding, bagging storage, transport and disposal of Kendu Leaves in his Range as per work schedule and Agreement with Orissa Forest Corporation Ltd.(xvi)He shall be responsible for overall expenditure in his Range and ensure economy in expenditure having regard to the commercial nature of the scheme.
