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The experiment will be replicated in other states soon.”Ashutosh had also visited command & control room of forest department in Nagpur on October 17, 2018. He was apprised about department’s IT preparedness to address emerging challenges of forest fires. He was also urged to provide pre-fire alerts of the last two years.“As our web system was not integrated with Maharashtra, sending alerts used to take long time. We were working with FSI for the last one year for providing web map service facility for forest fire alerts. This has been possible as FSI has shared thematic maps with forest department..