District Forest Office

akhil nl 8 months ago

It’s the place where we get tickets to visit Berijam Lake. It will open at 8.30am . If we need to get tickets we need to get there at least 8am. Don’t come early. This place is crowded with taxi drivers. They will break the queue and make rush. But normally they are giving permissions to all of them in the queue.

First we need to fill the form. After that they will call for making payment. Please carry a pen for filling the form

We need to cross the Moiers point forest check post before 11.30. And return before 3.30 PM

Rahul Kalra 9 months ago

We visited Berijam Lake in Kodaikonal on 12/05/2023. On enquiring from the Forest Dept about getting permission to enter the lake we were informed by the DFO office that a prior pass has to be taken from the office at 8 am sharp. Only 50 jeep/cars would be allowed inside the forest where the lake is situated. We were present at the DFO office at 8:00 am sharp to get the required pass. The harrowing experience started from their itself. When I reached the office, there were was a line of about 25 people already standing there and ticket counter was closed. I was told that it would open at 8.30 am. Besides the people waiting in the queue, there was another group of about 15-20 people standing inside the gate. When the office opened, forms were distributed to be filled in. There was total mismanagement (People were not carrying pens as they didn't know that they had to fill forms) There was no count & numerous forms were distributed. There was confusion all around. A single job that could have been done smoothly became so chaotic and stressful. After spending a little more than an hour, the required pass for our car was obtained.
We thought we are going to visit a pristine forest and lake on a quiet road away from the busy hill station milling with the summer vacation crowd. That was not to be. The entire stretch was full of tourist buses and cars. There were huge traffic jams at all the view points (totally unexpected). The return journey was no less pathetic. There were long traffic jams in front of Moir view point, Pine forest, Guna caves, Pillar rock and Green valley view point. There was not a single traffic cop or anyone from the administration to manage and regulate the traffic. It seemed that they had completely given up and were waiting for a tragedy to happen. Tourist buses were parked on the roadside in a haywire manner despite the proper parking places being available. Precious time and fuel wasted due to long traffic jams.
More than 100 vehicles entered the forest that day. Buses, jeeps, cars all were allowed inside the jungle despite the guideline clearly stating that only jeep/ car will be allowed.

Gopinath D 10 months ago

While we want to go inside the forest Berijam lake view point from Moir point ...
We want to get the forest ranger permit in the district forest office..
For the permit we want to pay 200 ₹ ...
We want to go there at 8:00AM clk .. rangers come to the office at 8:30AM...
We want to fill the form
Name , vehicles, passenger details, vehicles number , I'd proof no, signature...
Once you want to read the instructions clearly ...
From 9:30AM we can enter from the Moir point ...