Essay On Social Forestry

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Man is the greatest and powerful inhabitant of this green habitat . Man has realized that in order to sustain his existence on this earth he has to preserve its natural and ecological balance The West Bengal government regularly organizes afforestation programmes that immediately help in maintaining the perfect equilibrium between man and nature. The state west Bengal with area of 88752sq.km is one of the smaller states in Indian union. The total forest cover of the state is 13.5% of the total geographical area. The state forest cover not small in size but its distribution, quality and productivity are not uniform also 09% of the total geographical state is under actual forest cover Considering …show more content…

It requires scientific analysis of the problem so that the resources available from forestry can be utilized efficiently. The other important points to be consider is the livelihood of the poor community who lives surroundings the forest, the poorest of the poor people. The primary objective of the research is to make a study of the role of West Bengal Government in social forestry. The study specially aims at: a) To study the overall objectives of the social forestry. b) To study the various components of social forestry. c) To study the several important issue to the programme. d) To study the acheivements under the programme . e) To find out the various problems. f) To study the steps taken by the government for solving the …show more content…

West Bengal, state forest report directorates of forest ,government of West Bengal. Reports published By the Indian statistical Institute(ISI) .Apart from this we have interviewed officials of divisional forest office north 24 parganas and a few selected blocks for a spot idea what is been done for the development of social forestry .we have also visited some selected villages where social forestry is being done for the betterment of village people. The collected data have been tabulated and analyzed using accounting and simple statistical

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