KYFL Odisha

Know Your Forest Location in Odisha

KYFL @ ODISHA (Know Your Forest Location in Odisha) available in Google Play Store and Apple’s

App Store ( Web URL: https://odishaforestlandinfo.in ) is a location service App

developed for Forest & Env. Department, Govt. of Odisha by ORSAC and FITGC Odisha,

utilizing the “Odisha RuRban4K Geo” Geospatial services. The App is developed by utilizing

georeferenced and geotagged administrative boundary and location data of “Odisha Rurban

4K Geo” and “OFMS” of Forest Department.

With respect to the Point of Interest (POI) of the user, the Mobile App gives the Geo-

Location of POI , name of the nearest Notified Forest Block and Approximate Distance from

the nearest Notified Forest Block and Forest Jurisdiction Details like Forest Circle, Division,

Range, Section and Beat. Along with these Forest specific information, the App also provides

the additional Land Revenue Information with respect to the Point of Interest (POI) like

name of District, Tehesil , CD Block, GP, Village, Khata number, Plot number, Owner’s

Name, Land Type and Area in Hectare , Police Station Details (Thana Name & Code and

Distance of Thana). .

There may be some inadvertent and inherent technical errors due to mobile devices and usual

mapping scale errors in the displayed data of the App, though best possible precautions are

taken to minimize the Geoinformatics errors. The data of this App is recommend only for

planning and management purpose. However for Land Revenue related measurements, field

DGPS Survey under standard operating procedures in presence of Revenue and Forest

Authorities is warranted.

This App is developed under 5T initiatives of Government of Odisha.