A one-day workshop to discuss on forest fire issues of the Central India States was organized on 17th February 2025 at Telangana State Forest Academy Dulapally Ranga Reddy Hyderabad. The forest officers from the States of Andhra Pradesh Chhattisgarh Jharkhand Madhya Pradesh Maharashtra and Telangana participated in the workshop. Sh. Ratnakar Jauhari APCCF Telangana Forest Department chaired the workshop. The workshop was co-chaired by Sh. Manoj Kumar Agarwal APCCF Madhya Pradesh Forest Department and Sh. Sanjay Kumar Chauhan AIG MoEFCC. A part from forest fire related activities carried out by FSI followed by forest fire prevention management control issues and possible solution of each participating State was discussed in the workshop.