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The modern Indian Forest Service was established in 1966, after independence, under the All India Services Act 1951. The first Inspector General of Forests, Hari Singh, was instrumental in the development of the Forest Service. India has an area of 635,400 km 2 designated as forests, about 19.32% of the country.
Forest Rangers are state forest officers who serve in the provincial forest forces. They can either be directly appointed to the rank of Forest Ranger or promoted from the position of Deputy Ranger. In India, these officers are recruited either through the Public Service Commission in India or the State recruitment service, depending on the ...
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Indira Gandhi National Forest Academy (IGNFA) is a forest service training institute under the Ministry of Environment and Forests of India, which was originally as Indian Forest College, established in 1938 for training of senior forest officers. It is situated in the New Forest campus of Forest Research Institute (FRI), Dehradun.
The Indian Institute of Forest Management (IIFM), founded 1982, is an autonomous, Natural Resource Service training institute of Forestry located in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, established by the MoEFCC, Government of India with financial assistance from the SIDA and course assistance from the IIM Ahmedabad for mid career training of IFS cadre and all State Forest Service cadre in India. [2]
In 1947, with India gaining independence, ICS was replaced by Indian Administrative Service (IAS) and the Indian Police (IP) was replaced by Indian Police Service (IPS) and were recognised by the Indian Constitution as All-India Services. In 1963, Indian Forest Service (IFS) was created and it came into existence in 1966. [9]
Candidates were allowed to view their answer sheets and point out errors in the grading of answers for a fee of Rs. 100 per question. [18] [19] For the 2017 exam, 3,026,598 candidates filled in the online application, [20] of which 1,543,418 candidates took the exam. 226,229 candidates passed Tier 1, [21] and 47,003 candidates passed Tier 2. [22]
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.