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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.
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.
In India, the Head of Forest Forces (HoFF) is the highest ranking officer of the Indian Forest Service (IFS), one of the three All India Services with the other two being IAS and IPS, in the Indian States and Union Territories. Each Head of Forest Forces is an IFS officer, and has the rank of Principal Chief Conservator of Forests (PCCF).
The modern Indian Forest Service was established in 1966, after independence, under the All India Services Act 1951, for protection, conservation, and regeneration of forest resources. India has an area of 635,400 km designated as forests, about 19.32 percent of the country.
The 2009 Indian national forest policy document emphasizes the need to combine India's effort at forest conservation with sustainable forest management. [33] India defines forest management as one where the economic needs of local communities are not ignored, rather forests are sustained while meeting nation's economic needs and local issues ...
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 ...
Pages in category "Forest administration in India" ... Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education; A. ... Indian Forest Service; J. Joint Forest Management; K.
As of 2020, India had the 10th largest forest cover in the world. [36] From 2010 to 2020, India was the country with the 3rd largest maximum average annual net gains in forest area and accounted for 2% of the world's total forest area. [37] In 2021, India's total forest cover was 80.9 million hectares, which is 24.62% of the country's land area ...