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The Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006, is a key piece of forest legislation passed in India on 18 December 2006. It has also been called the Forest Rights Act, the Tribal Rights Act, the Tribal Bill, and the Tribal Land Act. The law concerns the rights of forest-dwelling communities ...
Provincial Forest Service (IAST: Prāntīya Vana Sevā), often abbreviated to as PFS, is one of the state natural resource services under Group 'A' and Group 'B' state service of Government of Uttar Pradesh responsible for ensuring the ecological stability of the country via thorough protection and participatory sustainable forestry, wildlife and environment.
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.
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 ...
The Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi (Amendment) Act, 2023 also commonly known as Delhi Services Act, [1] is a bill that extends the Central Government's control of services and gives powers to the Lieutenant Governor of Delhi over the capital city's elected Government. [2] [3]