However, the Forest Department , with the assistance of the Madhya Pradesh Government, is making all-out efforts to minimise the loss and also to take action against those selling these wood without paying Sales Tax. The signigicance of the effect can be assessed from the very fact that Madhya Pradesh sold timber to the tune of Rs 450-500 crore during the previous year. In this, the contribution to Teak and Sal was maximum it is learnt.