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Saturday, September 08, 2007

PROTECTION OF FORESTS BY VILLAGERS

  16:36 IST RAJYA SABHA The Joint Forest Management strategy has been adopted by all the 28 States and 2 Union Terriortries. As per the information furnished by the State Forest Departments there are more than one lakh village level Joint Forest Management Committees (JFMCs) managing approximately 22 million hectare of forest area. As per the provisions of National Forest Policy, 1988 Government of India has issued guidelines to States on June 1, 1990 to involve village communities in regeneration and protection of forest areas under the Joint Forest Management Programme.. This information was given by the Minister of State in the Ministry of Environment and Forests, Shri S.Regupathy in a written reply to question byKumari Nirmala Deshpande :in the Rajya Sabha today. KP:PM posted at:   http://pib.nic.in/release/release.asp?relid=30962  
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