From MD’s Desk

Tripura Forest Development & plantation Corporation Limited(TFDPC) was established in the year 1976 under the Companies Act, 1956 by the Government of Tripura with equity participation from the Ministry of Environment & Forests Government of India. The authorized share capital of the Corporation is Rs.10.00 crores. The main objectives of the Corporation are to rehabilitate the degraded forest land as well as Jhumias through raising of Rubber plantations while utilizing the productive potential of land and entrepreneurial energy of local people. After 35 years of sustained efforts, TFDPC has emerged as single largest owner of Rubber Estate in India wherein Rubber plantations have been raised over 11600 hectares. The Corporation has made pioneering attempts to develop successful models for the permanent settlement of the tribal shifting cultivators honey combing the forests through rubber cultivation by providing each family one hectare of Rubber plantation. It has provided settlement to more than 2700 tribal families o far and is in the process to cover another 1000 families in the next five years period. The TFDPC is creating employment opportunities to around 6500 people directly and to equal number of people indirectly thus becoming one of the most important social sector organization in the State.
Each tribal family is earning around 10 to 15 thousand or more rupees every month from sale of rubber from one ha of Rubber plantation. The Corporation is promoting rubber based industries in the State of Tripura in generating employment opportunities in rural areas to the tune of 10 lakhs man-days every year. The thrust of the Corporation activities was to enhance the area of rubber plantations on degraded forest land. we intend to plant another 3874 ha along the Indo-Bangla Border to create sufficient resource base for Rubber Industries in the State. One Technically specified Rubber factory is being set up at Takmacherra which shall be commissioned during the current year.
The Corporation has taken initiatives to diversify its activities in promotion and value addition of rubber, rubber timber, bamboo and marketing of medicinal products. The Corporation is successfully running a Rubber Timber Processing Unit at its Industrial Estate. A sophisticated furniture manufacturing Unit with all imported carpentry machineries has already started producing rubber wood furniture from seasoned and treated Rubberwood at affordable price. A solid Rubber wood Board production unit named “Tripura Rubber Wood Factory” has started for production of solid Rubber Wood Board( 8 ft X 4 Ft) of 12mm to 38mm thickness, and Beams of 16 ft length with width ranging between 4 X 3 to 6 X 4 inches. We area also in the process of setting up an export oriented Door Manufacturing Factory. The international certification for unit has also been set up in the Industrial Estate. These activities shall create significant number of permanent jobs in the State.
Further the collective efforts of all tappers, workers, staff and management and the culture of teamwork have enabled the Corporation to make continuous profits over the years and dividend payments to shareholders. The future challenge lies in how effectively do we diversify and harness the potential of Bamboo, medicinal plants and CDM. Some of the Corporate Social Responsibilities for TFDPC include adoption of Angan wadi centre, Greening of Agartala town area and awareness campaign on socially relevant issues. We look for your kind cooperation in building the Corporation as “State Ratna”.

 

Dr. Alind Rastogi
Managing Director

 TFDPC Ltd.