{"id":1003759,"date":"2026-04-18T12:19:44","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T06:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1003759"},"modified":"2026-04-18T13:20:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T07:50:39","slug":"ai-to-the-rescue-uttarakhand-deploys-technology-to-reclaim-thousands-of-hectares-of-encroached-forest-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/18\/ai-to-the-rescue-uttarakhand-deploys-technology-to-reclaim-thousands-of-hectares-of-encroached-forest-land\/","title":{"rendered":"AI to the rescue: Uttarakhand deploys technology to reclaim thousands of hectares of encroached forest land"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DEHRADUN: In a bid to address the bureaucratic and legal gridlock surrounding its shrinking \u201cgreen shield,\u201d Uttarakhand\u2019s Forest Department is preparing to launch an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based tracking system. <\/p>\n<p>As the Himalayan state struggles to reclaim thousands of hectares of encroached forest land, officials hope this digital intervention will enable real-time monitoring and improve accountability in tackling encroachments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DEHRADUN: In a bid to address the bureaucratic and legal gridlock surrounding its shrinking \u201cgreen shield,\u201d Uttarakhand\u2019s Forest Department is preparing to launch an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based tracking system. As the Himalayan state struggles to reclaim thousands of hectares of encroached forest land, officials hope this digital intervention will enable real-time monitoring and improve accountability in tackling encroachments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1003759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1003759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1003759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1003759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1003759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}