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Officers are recruited through an open competitive examination conducted by the UPSC [8] and then trained for about two years by the Central Government at Indira Gandhi National Forest Academy. Their services are placed under various State cadres and joint cadres, being an All India Service they have the mandate to serve both under the State ...
Although sanctioned strength was 912, the actual strength of Group A was 770 officers in 2014. [2] In addition there were in 2014, 252 Grade-I officers of Indian Foreign Service (B) General Cadre who after promotion are inducted into Indian Foreign Service (A). The lower grades of the Indian Foreign Service(B) General Cadre included 635 attaches.
Pandillapalli Srinivas was an Indian Forest Service officer (Deputy Conservator of Forests, Karnataka), a Kirti Chakra recipient (second in order of precedence of peacetime gallantry awards), who is widely considered to be one of the most outstanding figures in Indian forest conservation, [1] served as Assistant Commander of Special Task Force(STF) to nab gangster Veerappan.
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]
Sanjiv Chaturvedi (born 21 December 1974) is an Indian Forest Service (IFoS) officer posted as Chief Conservator of Forest (Research) at Haldwani in the Nainital district of Uttarakhand. Chaturvedi was a Chief Vigilance Officer (CVO) at AIIMS, New Delhi from 2012 to 2014, and served in the government of Haryana from 2005 to 2012. [2] [3]
Each Head of Forest Forces is an IFS officer, and has the rank of Principal Chief Conservator of Forests (PCCF). The HoFF is the head of the forest department in Indian states and is selected by the Governor, based on the recommendation of the council of ministers led by the Chief Minister , from among the senior most Principal Chief ...
Among the members of the civil services are administrators in the central government and state government; emissaries in the foreign missions/embassies; tax collectors and revenue commissioners; civil service commissioned police officers; permanent representative(s) and employees in the United Nations and its agencies; and chairmen, managing ...
The institute is headed by the Dean of the Foreign Service Institute, who is an officer of the Indian Foreign Service of the rank of Secretary/Joint Secretary to the Government of India. Other officers deputed to the institute are - two Joint Secretaries, a Deputy Secretary and an Under Secretary; but this composition may change from time to ...