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An Act to recognise and vest the forest rights and occupation in forest land in forest dwelling Scheduled Tribes and other traditional forest dwellers who have been residing in such forests for generations but whose rights could not be recorded; to provide for a framework for recording the forest rights so vested and the nature of evidence required for such recognition and vesting in respect ...
The highest-ranking Forest Service official in each state is the Head of Forest Forces. A forest service officer also hold positions of Chairman and Member Secretary in the State Pollution Control Boards. Earlier, the British Government in India had constituted the Imperial Forest Service in 1867 which functioned under the Federal Government ...
Minister of State for Environment, Forest and Climate Change 10 Mahesh Sharma (born 1959) MP for Gautam Buddh Nagar: 3 September 2017 30 May 2019 1 year, 269 days: Bharatiya Janata Party: Modi I: Narendra Modi: 11 Babul Supriyo (born 1970) MP for Asansol: 31 May 2019 7 July 2021 2 years, 37 days: Modi II: 12 Ashwini Kumar Choubey (born 1953) MP ...
The mandate of the ICFRE is to organise, direct and manage research and education in the forestry sector, [10] including in cooperation with FORTIP (UNDP [11] /FAO Regional Forest Tree Improvement Project), UNDP and World Bank on economically important species. ICFRE established a National Bureau of Forest Genetic Resources (NBFGR).
The Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi (Amendment) Act, 2021 (or the GNCTD Amendment Act) [1] was enacted by the Government of India on 28 March 2021. [2] It amends the Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi Act, 1991 to give primacy to the centrally appointed Lieutenant Governor of Delhi and make the elected Government of Delhi subsidiary.
The Director General of Forests of India is the highest-ranking officer of the Indian Forest Service. The director is posted in the Union Government of India and generally selected from the senior-most PCCFs [clarification needed] of the states of India. The Indian Government has only one post for the Director General of Forests.
The National Forest Commission is a non-ministerial government department responsible for the assessment of policy in India regarding publicly owned forests and laws relating to both public and private Forestry in India. The commission was set up in 2003 to review and assess India's policy and law and their effect on India's forests.
Forest Survey of India (FSI), founded in June 1981 and headquartered at Dehradun in Uttarakhand, is the Government of India Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change organisation which conducts forest surveys, studies and researches to periodically monitor the changing situations of land and forest resources and present the data for national planning, conservation and sustainable ...