National Forest Policy

. After independence the govt of India imposed some forest policies over the resource that had been forcefully taken away from the people. After independence the government of India declared a new forest policy called the National Forest Policy of 1952. The 1952 policy introduced a fundamental concept of self- sustenance for meeting the local and national needs and advocated national forestry. The princely states were managed variably, giving more concessions to the local population. The national forest policy resolution (1952) of the government of India largely re-asserted the methods and objectives of forest management that had been established by British in 1894 during the previous hundred years.

The national forest policy resolution,

The 1970s were for a series of forest movement in different parts of India. As long as the conflict situation continues between forest department and the villagers on cannot hope to preserve India’s forest. These took place in Himalaya, in the Western Ghats and in vast tribal belt extending across the heart of peninsular India. The harmony between the forest dwellers and forest was disturbed by the state monopoly right. Commercial bias creates the conflict between the forest managers and local people. One of the famous forest conflicts is Chipko movement of the central Himalaya. Chipko movement took place in1970, primarily to conserve Himalayan forests out of the violation of state forestry. Chipko movement was originated in Garhwal and Kumaun village and along with it many intensive conflicts took shape between state management and local inhabitance of central

The wood- based industry was the growing awareness that dwindling the natural forests. To mitigate or overcome the shortage of firewood the forest department launched a Social Forestry (SF) programme. Social Forestry is a practice of forestry to taking off the pressure from the natural forest and for meeting the felt needs of rural urban areas rather than to meet the commercial and industrial interest. Social forestry involves the people at all levels with raising forests as their own asset for their own use. The Social Forestry is concerned with the production of fast growing species such as Eucalyptus and plantations consequently sprang up. The plantation of Eucalyptus had been grown to provide raw materials to the paper industry. Under the augur of social forestry the land was being used to produce Eucalyptus because it can fetch Rs 8000 per hectare rather than produce inferior cereals. These causes reduction for the demand of labour force and enforce poor people to buy cereals. The growing demand for paper industries encouraged the forest department to dispersal free seeds of Eucalyptus and technological knowledge regarding its plantation and completely ignores the trees which provide basic needs to the rural