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Forest Research Institute campus, Dehradun, India. The Forest Research Institute (abbr. FRI; Hindi: वन अनुसन्धान संस्थान) is a Natural Resource Service training institute of the Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education and is an institution in the field of forestry research in India for Indian Forest Service cadres and all State Forest Service cadres.
Headquartered in Dehradun, its functions are to conduct forestry research; transfer the technologies developed to the states of India and other user agencies; and to impart forestry education. The council has 9 research institutes and 4 advanced centres to cater to the research needs of different bio-geographical regions.
The academy was constituted in the year 1987 by renaming the Indian Forest College, which was established in 1938 for training senior forest officers. [1] On 25 May 1987, Indian Forest College upgraded to National Forest Academy through a resolution and given a formal name "Indira Gandhi National Forest Academy". [2]
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 ...
Dehradun: 1906 (1991) Forestry [217] [218] Graphic Era (Deemed to be University) Uttarakhand: Dehradun: 1993 (2008) Technology, Management [219] [220] Gurukula Kangri (Deemed to be University) Uttarakhand: Haridwar: 1902 (1962) Multidisciplinary [221] [222] Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Educational and Research Institute: West Bengal: Belur ...
As of 2001 India census, [1] FRI and College Area had a population of 5428. Males constitute 53% of the population and females 47%. Males constitute 53% of the population and females 47%. FRI and College Area has an average literacy rate of 81%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 84%, and female literacy is 77%.
The institute has its origins in department of Geology at University of Delhi, after being shifted to Dehradun it was initially named as the Institute of Himalayan Geology, renamed in 1976 as the Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology in memory of its founder, late Prof. Darashaw Nosherwan Wadia (F.R.S. and National Professor), in honor to his contributions to the geology of the Himalayas.
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. [3]