19 Integrated Regional Offices to start functioning from 1st October
The IROs will be established though redeployment of human and other resources available with 10 Regional Offices of ROHQ Division, 4 Regional Offices of Forest Survey of India (FSI), 3 Regional Centre of National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA), 4 Regional Offices of Central Zoo Authority (CZA) and 5 Regional Offices & 3 Sub-regional Offices of Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB) in an integrated manner, and their further strengthening. Thus, each IRO shall have representation from existing Regional Office/Regional Centre of MoEF&CC, FSI, NTCA, CZA and WCCB as available to them from time to time.
The headquarters and jurisdictions of the 19 IROs will be as under:
| Sl. No. | Headquarter of IRO | States and UTs under jurisdiction |
| (i) | Shillong | Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Tripura |
| (ii) | Ranchi | Jharkhand, Bihar |
| (iii) | Bhubaneswar | Odisha |
| (iv) | Bengaluru | Karnataka, Kerala, Goa, Lakshadweep |
| (v) | Chennai | Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, A&N Islands |
| (vi) | Lucknow | Uttar Pradesh |
| (vii) | Bhopal | Madhya Pradesh |
| (viii) | Nagpur | Maharashtra |
| (ix) | Chandigarh | Chandigarh, Haryana, Punjab |
| (x) | Dehradun | Uttarakhand |
| (xi) | Jaipur | Rajasthan, Delhi |
| (xii) | Gandhi Nagar | Gujarat, Daman & Diu, Dadra & Nagar Haveli |
| (xiii) | Vijayawada | Andhra Pradesh |
| (xiv) | Raipur | Chhattisgarh |
| (xv) | Hyderabad | Telangana |
| (xvi) | Shimla | Himachal Pradesh |
| (xvii) | Kolkata | West Bengal, Sikkim |
| (xviii) | Guwahati | Assam, Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh |
| (xix) | Jammu | Ladakh, Jammu & Kashmir |
The head of each of the IRO will be called “Regional Officer” of MoEF&CC. Each of the above 19 Integrated Regional Offices (IROs) shall work as an integrated regional unit of the MoEF&CC in achieving the outcomes related to the mandate of theMinistry.
