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The Indian Forest Service (IFS) is the premier forest service of India. [1] [2] [3].The IFS is one of the three All India Services along with the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) & the Indian Police Service (IPS). It was constituted in the year 1966 under the All India Services Act, 1951.
Forest cover is the total geographical area declared as forest by the government. As of 2021, the total forest cover in India is 80.9 million hectares, which is 21.71 per cent of the total geographical area. [2] There is a 1,540 sq.km increase in forest cover over 2019. Madhya Pradesh has the highest forest cover by area followed by Arunachal ...
According to the Indian State of Forest Report (2021), the total mangrove cover in India is approximately 4,992 km 2, which constitutes about 0.15% of the country's total geographical area. [11] According to the 2023 report, it decreased to 4,991.68 km square, a decrease of 7.43 sq km in 2 years. [2]
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 ...
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 ...
The commission was set up in 2003 to review and assess India's policy and law and their effect on India's forests. It was given instructions to make recommendations on ways India could achieve sustainable forest and ecological security. [2] The report made over 300 recommendations to the Indian Board of Wildlife.
The Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education (ICFRE) [1] [2] [3] is an autonomous organisation [4] [5] or governmental agency under the MoEFCC, Government of India. 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 ...
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 ...