National Forest Policy, 1988

National Forest Policy, 1988
Parliament of India
  • An Act to provide for the conservation of forests and for matters connected there with or ancillary or incidental thereto.
Territorial extentThe whole of India.
Enacted byParliament of India
Enacted1988
Status: In force

The National Forest Policy, 1988 is an Act of the Parliament of India to revise the previously enacted National Forest Policy of 1952. The 1988 National Forest Policy strongly suggested the idea of empowering and involving local communities in the protection and development of forests. A direct outcome of the National Forest Policy, 1988 was the Joint Forest Management Program (JFM /JFMP) instituted in 1990 by the Government of India. It was started on a pilot project basis in West Bengal as early as 1971, and again in the late 1980s with considerable success.

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