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Alarming on-going population explosion, rapid movement towards urbanisation andindustrialisation, increasing needs of energy and fast scientific and technological advancement have resultedin depletion of environmental resources and the contamination of planet earth. The environmental damagealready inflicted can not be reversed unless there is collective thinking, will and effort. These call forpublic awareness and participation for bringing about an attitudinal change and finally restricting furtherdamage to the environment. Effective implementation of environmental management and conservationprogrammes depends on education, awareness raising and training in the relevant areas. Without anunderstanding of how to conserve natural resources and the compelling need to do so, few people wouldbe motivated to participate actively in programmes on environmental conservation. Environment educationand awareness thus assume critical importance.

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The ‘Environment Education, Awareness and Training’ is an important scheme of the Ministry forenhancing the understanding of people at all levels about the relationship between human beings and theenvironment and to develop capabilities/skills to improve and protect the environment. This scheme waslaunched in 1983-84 with the following basic objectives:

✦ To develop educational/teaching materials and aids in the formal education sector;

✦ To encourage non-governmental organizations, mass media and other concerned organizations forpromoting environmental awareness among the people at all level;

✦ To promote environment education through existing educational/scientific /research institutions;

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✦ To ensure training and man-power development in environment education; and

✦ To mobilize people’s awareness for preservation and conservation of environment.

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✦ The National Green Corps (NGC) Programme is being implemented all over the countrysince 2001-02, with underlined objective of spreading environmental awareness amongst school

children. This goal is furthered by establishment of eco-clubs in each district the country over,with the focus on action oriented environment programme through the active involvement of the

students. Though State Govts./UTs are at liberty to set up any number of eco-clubs in a district, thefinancial assistance under the Programme is restricted to 150 eco-clubs per district.

✦ Apart from stimulating awareness among the school children through physical programme of activitiesabout the environmental conservation and protection issues, the programme visualizes the role of children

as agents of change and for dissemination of environmental information among public at large.

✦ This programme is being implemented in each State/UT through the Nodal agency appointed by theState/UT Govt with the following objectives:

✧ To make children understand environment and environmental problems.

✧ To provide environmental education opportunities for school children.

✧ To utilise the unique position of school children as conduits for awareness of the society at large.

✧ To facilitate children’s participation in decision making in areas related to environment & development.

✧ To bring children into direct contact with the environmental problems facing the society they live in andmake them think of solutions.

✧ To involve children in action based programmes related to environment in their surroundings.

More than 72,000 eco clubs have been established across the country so far. One of the major changeseffected in the programme during the year was to increase the quantum of financial assistance from Rs.1,000/- to Rs.2,500/- per eco-club perannum. Also the ceiling of eco-clubs entitled to get financialassistance from the Ministrywill be raised from 150 to 250per district from next year.The increased monetarysupport will enable theeco-clubs to broad base

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two day session was organised at Guwahati, so that problems specific to the region could be identifiedand resolved. Progress made in supporting eco-clubs under the scheme since 2001-02 is shown in Fig.76.

The National Green Corps Programme is implemented throughout the country through StateNodal Agencies. List of such Agencies in States/UTs is given at Annexure-VII.

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✦ The NEAC was launched in mid 1986 with the objective of creating environmental awareness atthe national level. In this campaign, nominal financial assistance is provided to NGOs, schools,colleges, universities, research institutions, women and youth organisations, army units, governmentdepartments etc. from all over the country for conducting awareness raising activities. The activitiescould be seminars, workshops, training programmes, camps, padyatras, rallies, public meetings,exhibitions, essay/debate/painting/poster competitions, folk dances and songs, street theatre, puppetshows, preparation and distribution of environmental education resource materials etc., followedby action like plantation of trees, management of household waste etc.

✦ Diverse target groups encompassing students, youths, teachers, tribal, farmers, other rural population,professionals and the general public are covered under NEAC. The programme is implementedevery year with a specific “theme” through designated Regional Resource Agencies (RRAs) appointedfor specific States/Regions of the country. Theme for NEAC, 2005-06 was focussed on ‘SolidWaste Management’.

✦ In this campaign, NGOs, schools, colleges, universities, research institutions, women and youthorganisations, army units, government departments etc. from all over the country get associated inorganising and conducting awareness raising activities followed by action activities. Nominal financialassistance is provided for the purpose by the Ministry. A record number of such organisations(9566) were got associated with the campaign and were provided financial assistance.

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✦ This programme provides a platform to scientists/environmentalists/ University professionals/ technocrats,etc, to share their knowledge on various subjects related to environment. The Ministry provides financialassistance to the Universities/other institutions/NGOs to organise the events (seminars /symposia/workshops/conferences) and to publish the proceedings. The scheme facilitates the transfer of technical know-how todifferent people including local population.

✦ During the year, about 70organisations were providedfinancial assistance forconducting Seminars/Symposia/ Workshops etc.

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adopt sustainable life styles and voluntarily follow environmental regulations. These objectives aresought to be achieved through the electronic and print media, the film and theatre media, etc.

✦ The Ministry has formulated a Media Action Plan, under which several initiatives were taken up asfollows:

✧ Sponsoring a half-hour weekly Environmental Television Magazine called “Bhoomi” telecaston Doordarshan National Channel;

✧ Launching an awareness campaign on select environmental themes like water conservation,conservation of wetlands, man-animal conflict and illegal trade in wildlife, etc. through 27private TV channels;

✧ Launching of a 15 minute programme ‘Yeh Gulistan Hamara’ in 12 languages on All IndiaRadio;

✧ Supporting “Vatavaran Film Festival” which is India’s premier Festival on and Wild LifeFilms;

✧ To make use of the medium of documentary films for environmental awareness, an MOUhas been signed with Public Service Broadcasting Trust (PSBT) for the production of 13films every year on environmental issues and their telecast on Doordarshan.

✧ The Ministry also sponsored a tour of a group of 20 international and national journalists toRanthambhore National Park in order to sensitize the journalists on the ecology of the NationalPark with special reference to man-animal conflict on protection of livelihoods.

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✦ The programme was launched during the Seventh Plan period with the objective of encouragingthe expertise available with the professional societies and institutions and to help augment thecapabilities in the identified areas by developing programmes and activities in the areas ofenvironmental education, ecology and wildlife.

✦ The major component of the scheme was to provide one time grant to professional societies andinstitutions to develop their activities and projects in the field of environment with an ultimateobjective of enhancing their capabilities in the various activities relating to protection of environmentand conservation of natural resources. The grant is not available for construction, office equipment,goods and services which are not related or do not facilitate environment education. The grantunder the programme is also not given for research, collection and compilation of data/informationor to any individual/ business houses.

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Under this programme subscription to professional, scientific and technical journals to hone upthe knowledge base of officers and staff of the Ministry is funded. Publication of resource material forbenefit of eco-clubs is also supported under this programme.

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✦ The Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) Programme – aninternational Science and Education programme – which was started in 1995 by USA and is presentlybeing conducted in about 108 countries, is doing pretty well in India. It facilitates research througha worldwide research team comprising of students, teachers and scientists.

✦ GLOBE provides a unique opportunity to its students to carry out various measurements so thatthey can learn about scientific protocols and perform environmental learning activities, which havealready been introduced as theory in the greened textbooks developed for EESS project. The GLOBE


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Even though financial assistance is provided for awareness programmes under the NEACwhich are usually held within a specific time frame and are short-term projects restricted to a

specific area, other proposals for creating awareness among diverse target groups are also receivedthroughout the year from various NGOs and other agencies. These are considered on merit as and

when received and supported. Few examples of these are:

✦ An international written Environment Quiz programme known as Green Olympiad followed by atelevised Quiz programme TERRA-QUIZ conducted by TERI. This was conducted in both Hindi

and English this year. More than sixty thousand school students from India, Russia and UAE participatedin this competition.

✦ Written environmental quiz programs in different regional languages are being started. The winners ofwritten quiz would participate in a televised quiz program.

✦ Awareness activities / events by NGOs, academic institutions etc. on the occasion of special Environmentdays like Earth Day etc.

✦ Organisation of an annual Vacation Program on Environmental Resources for high school level studentsnamely “Vacation programme on Natural Resources Building a Broader constituency of support forconservation” by Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment, (ATREE), New Delhi.

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✦ In order to provide interested persons an opportunity to learn in detail about specific environmentalissues, the Ministry has already got a course module developed from Indira Gandhi National Open University(IGNOU) for Environmental Appreciation Courses. Delivery of these courses through distance educationmode has been started during the current year by IGNOU.

✦ In addition to this, the course module developed for appreciation courses is also being used by theIGNOU as compulsory component of its undergraduate courses. This has been carried out in pursuanceof the directives of the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India.

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✦ The formal education in schools and colleges provides an excellent instrument for influencing a vastsection of impressionable minds to get motivated to take action for environment. Introduction of

environment education into the existing curricula of primary, secondary and tertiary education makesfuture generation conscious of the importance of environment protection and improvement. Though

Formal Education is the mandate of the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD),the Ministry of Environment & Forests has been interacting with the MHRD, National Council

of Education, Research and Training (NCERT), and State Departments of Education etc. toensure that environmental components are adequately covered at the school level. The Ministry

had also been interacting with the University Grant Commission (UGC) to ensure coverageof these components at the college level education.

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by NCERT in all the classes at the school level; it is proposed to facilitate the State Governments inpreparation of new textbooks as per the model syllabus. The Ministry also proposes to providetechnical and financial assistance to the State Governments for training of teachers.

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Recognising the immensity of the challenges and the critical impact that environment educationcan bring, the Ministry launched an initiative in 2002 to integrate environmental concepts and issues inthe Management Education Syllabi of various professional Management courses. The course contentwas examined. Workshops were conducted to sensitise the faculty of management colleges towardsenvironmental issues.

✦ A Curriculum Development Workshop was also conducted to develop new curriculum and also todevelop a resource base for teaching material. An inventory of the courses offered in India andabroad has also been prepared along with an inventory of resource material.

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✦ The National Museum of Natural History (NMNH) an attached organization of the Ministry hasbeen set up with its main objective to promote non-formal environmental education and natureconservation awareness among people.

✦ The NMNH and its Regional Museums of Natural History (RMNH) at Mysore, Bhopal andBhubaneswar carried out a number of programmes and activities, keeping in mind all the sectionsof society to enhance public awareness on Environment and Conservation and to develop scientifictemperament in the society.

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✦ Exhibitions on the topic “Jal Hi Jeewan Hai”, “Snakes are not our enemies” were organised on theoccasion of International Museum Day - 18th May, 2005 and World Environment Day - 5th Juneby the Regional Museum of Natural History, Bhopal. Another exhibition “Zero Carbon CityProject - North, South, East, West” was also organised in collaboration with British Council whichwas inaugurated on 26th September, 2005 by His Excellency Hon’ble Governor, of Madhya Pradesh.

✦ Two temporary exhibitions titled “Natural History of Rocks” highlighting the Geology of SouthIndia with special reference to Rocks and “Water Water Everywhere but .........” in connection withWorld Water Day were organized and inaugurated at Regional Museum of Natural History, Mysore.

✦ An exhibition titled “Unique Creations of Nature” featuring unique attributes of animals whichensure their existence and maintains their discrete status in the constantly changing biologicalworld was commissioned on 10th August, 2005 on the occasion of the First Anniversary of RMNH,Bhubaneswar.

✦ Another exhibition titled “Zero Carbon City Exhibiton - NorthSouthEastWest” was organised incollaboration with British Council East India from 14th to 19th December, 2005 at RMNH,Bhubaneswar.

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✦ The National Museum of Natural History organised two workshops on “Museum asResource for Teaching” for the trainee teachers of D.I.E.T. on 10

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in which 30 teachers from all over Madhya Pradesh participated. Another Teachers TrainingWorkshop on Environmental Education through low cost teaching aids and field demonstration was

organised during 29th

-31st August, 2005 in collaboration with Environmental Planning and

Coordination Organisation (EPCO) and Career College, Bhopal was organised in which 42 traineeteachers participated.

✦ A workshop on Solid Waste Management titled “Waste wise” was organised from 30th-31

st December,

2005 at RMNH, Mysore in which 30 members from Resident Welfare Associations of Govt. of Indiaparticipated.

✦ A workshop for Science Teachers of Secondary Schools and Science Supervisors of the State was organizedby RMNH, Bhubaneswar to give basic knowledge on model making with paper and resin.

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✦ NMNH and its Regional Centres published a number of publications in English, Hindi, Kannada andOriya on the topics related to animals, plants, bio-diversity etc.

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✦ NMNH along with its Regional Museums of Natural History organised a number of in-house and outreachprogrammes for the benefit of school children, college students, teachers, challenged children and generalpublic.

✦ Various national and international days of scientific relevance like the World Wetland Day, World Day forWater, World Forestry Day, International Ozone Day, Conservation Day, Earth Day, World EnvironmentDay, World Day to Combat Desertification, World Population Day, Braille Day, World Heritage Day,International Bio-diversity Day, World No Tobacco Day, Wildlife Week, World Habitat Day and NationalEnvironmental Awareness Campaign were observed and different programmes for school children andchallenged children were also organised.

✦ The Museum organised different educational activities and competitions like Quiz, Declamation,On-the-spot Painting, Poster making, Essay writing, Model making, Bird Watching, Tree spotting forthe participating students on these occasions.

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NMNH and its Regional Centres organised Nature Camps during Summer and WinterVacations for students, teachers, rural school drop outs and winner children of various

competitions. The students were taken to Orissa, Sikkim, World Heritage Site,Bhimbetka, Chail Wildlife Sanctuary, H.P., Yamuna Bio-diversity Park, New Delhi,

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NMNH and its Regional Centres continued its academic and professional collaborations withvarious other institutions like Zoo, Environmental Planning and Coordination Organisation, IndiraGandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya, British Council, HT-Pace, Times of India etc. and various otherNGOs like Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment, Captain Ayush PurusarthanFoundation, Malabar Institute of Museums, Tourism and Heritage, District Tourism Promotion Council,Karnataka Rajya Vignana Parishat, Amritash Society, Bhopal, Care Welfare Society, Bhopal, Oasis etc.

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✦ Special project was sanctioned by the National Biodiversity Board of the Department ofBiotechnology, for the establishment of a Touch, Feel and Learn Plant Bio-resource Centre in aform of a garden meant specifically for the visually impaired. It is in the final stage of establishment.

✦ The NMNH library has more than 13,950 titles of books on environment, natural history, wildlife,ecology, general science etc. which are in the process of retro-conversion into a digital formatspecialized library software. This would enable it to connect to DELNET for better access by allusers.

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✦ A site offered by the State Govt. of Rajasthan has been inspected by the Committee nominated bythe Ministry and possession of the same will be taken shortly for the establishment of the RegionalMuseum of Natural History, Sawai Madhopur.

✦ A similar kind of Regional Museum of Natural History at Gangtok, Sikkim is under considerationin the Ministry.

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✦ Efforts are being made at a very high level to locate a suitable site for the permanent building forthe National Museum of Natural History in the Central Vista. In this regard, three places havebeen identified, Princess Park Hostel, Jodhpur House & Jamnagar House and visual presentationin CD format has been prepared for showing to the Hon’ble Prime Minister.

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✦ An Advisory Planning Committee for the Regional Museum of Natural History, Mysore has beenconstituted under the Chairmanship of Director, Centre for Indian Studies, Dhvanayaloka, Mysore.

✦ An Advisory Planning Committee for the Regional Museum of Natural History, Bhubaneswar hasalso been constituted under the Chairpersonship of Dr.(Mrs.) P. Mohanty Hejmadi, EmeritusProfessor & Ex-Vice Chancellor, Sambalpur University, Bhubaneswar.

✦ Advisory Planning Committees for NMNH, New Delhi and RMNH, Bhopal are being consideredby the Ministry.

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✦ Forestry education and training in India began in the early part of last century to meet the scientificrequirements especially in natural sciences and surveys. The present system of forestry educationand training is well tailored to produce skilled forest managers so as to manage, protect and conservethe forests in consonance with National Forest Policy, 1988 and the National Forestry ActionProgramme, 1999 etc.


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✦ The activities related to forestry education, training and extension are performedby the different institutes of the Ministry like Indira Gandhi National Forest Academy

(IGNFA), Directorate of Forest Education (DFE), Indian Council of Forestry Researchand Education (ICFRE), Indian Institute of Forest Management (IIFM) and Indian Plywood

Industries Research and Training Institute (IPIRTI).

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✦ The erstwhile Indian Forest College was upgraded to function as a staff college for IFS andrenamed as Indira Gandhi National Forest Academy in 1987. Nineteen batches of IFS officers have

been trained and have passed out from this academy. At present three batches of IFS probationers andForeign Trainees are undergoing training at the Academy.

✦ Four batches of IFS Probationers and Foreign Trainees have undergone various phases of trainings atthe academy. These training courses included a series of lectures, practicals, case studies, panel discussions,

field visits, tours, excursions, symposia, seminars, guest talks and counselor group meetings on variousforestry and allied subjects. Detailed are hereunder:

✦ Twenty seven IFS Probationers and two Foreign Trainees from Bhutan of 2002-2005 Course have passedout of the Academy after completing their trainings.

✦ Thirty two IFS Probationers and two Foreign Trainees from Bhutan of 2003-06 Course have completedtheir ‘Professional Phase-One’ training

✦ Twenty one IFS Probationers and two Foreign Trainees of 2004-2007 Course are undergoing ProfessionalPhase One Training in the Academy

✦ Twenty nine IFS Probationers and two Foreign Trainees of 2005-2007 Course joined the Academy on 8th

August 2005 and are presently undergoing the Foundational Course at the Lal Baharu Shastri NationalAdministrative Academy, Mussorrie.

✦ XVIII Skill Up-gradation Course during August – October, 2005, where 27 officers of various cadresparticipated.

✦ Thirteen AFM courses for the IFS officers of the 1995, 1988 and 1984 batches.

✦ Three special Advanced Forest Management (AFM) courses for 1986, 1992/93/94 and 1990/91batches for those officers who could not participated in these courses earlier.

✦ Ninth Senior Foresters workshop for the officers of 1980 batch in July 2005 in which 40 officersparticipated. The issues deliberated upon included Recognition of Forest Rights (Tribal) – discussion

on draft bill and role of senior forest officers in policy and decision making.

✦ From this year, academy is organizing a three-day Senior Foresters Workshop for the IFSofficers of 30 years of service.

✦ One-week refresher training programme on ‘Policy and Legal Issues’ was organised duringOct., 2005 in which 19 IFS officers from various states participated.

✦ Two thematic national workshops on “Training Needs Assessment at various levels inForestry Service” and “How to be effective on Cadre Management at various levels in

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The budget allocation for the scheme was Rs.4.09 crores for Plan and Rs.2.4010 crores for Non-Plan.

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✦ The Directorate of Forest Education (DFE) was part of the then Forest Research Institute & Colleges,Dehradun and remained responsible for professional and technical level training/ education in thecountry. There are four colleges under the Directorate of Forest Education. Names and intakecapacity of the colleges are as under:

✧ State Forest Service (SFS) College, Dehradun 90

✧ State Forest Service College, Coimbatore 80

✧ State Forest Service College, Burnihat 40

✧ Eastern Forest Rangers College, Kurseong (West Bengal) 40

✦ The Directorate caters to the training needs of SFS Officers and Forest Rangers of States/Unionterritories in the country and ensures ‘standard and quality’ of training imparted to the forestrypersonnel, as well as assists to develop appropriate and relevant training contents and evaluationstandards for forestry training at various levels.

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✦ During the year, a training course of SFS officers in SFS College, Dehradun was organized inwhich Senior batch 2004-06 is undergoing training while junior batch 2005-07 started trainingw.e.f. 1.4.2005.

✦ Three training courses of Forest Rangers at SFS Colleges at Coimbatore, Burnihat & EFRC,Kurseong was organized.

✦ Three Refresher Courses for in-service SFS officers with approx 30-35 participants were organized.

✦ Three Basic courses on Computer Applications in Forestry for in-service SFS officers (with 30-35participants in each) were conducted during the year.

✦ Three theme-based courses in forestry for in-service SFS officers were conducted.

✦ A two-week trainer’s training course was organized at Dehradun.

✦ Three two-week ‘Refresher Course for Range officers, sixty two two-week refresher courses forfrontline staff and three six-week ‘Promotion Linked Training’ for ACFs were organized during theyear.


The budget allocation in the scheme was Rs.2.96 crores under Plan and Rs.2.4211 crores under Non-Plan.


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✦ The different institutes/organizations under ICFRE carried out various education,training and extension activities related to forestry during the year.

✦ Arid Forest Research Institute (AFRI), Jodhpur organized three on the spot trainingprogrammes in collaboration with Rajasthan Forest Department on Capacity building & eco-

sensitization of farmers and rural poor for development and sustainable management of lifesupporting systems.

✦ Institute of Forest Productivity (IFP), Ranchi organized three one-week master trainers trainingprogrammes on Improved techniques of Lac Cultivation and one day master trainers training-cum-

field for SFD’s personnel, villagers, Foresters, Van Samiti Members of Madhya Pradesh and Chattisgarh.

✦ Centre for Social Forestry and Eco-rehabilitation (CSFER), Allahabad organized two training onResearch and development of Jatropha (Jatropha curcus), under the National Network programme of

NOVOD Board, the sponsoring agency.

✦ A research cum demonstration unit for vermicomposting has been set up at FRI, Dehradun for providingtraining to women of rural areas of Uttaranchal to generate additional income through vermicompostingof organic solid waste.

✦ Rain Forest Research Institute (RFRI), Jorhat has organized a training and demonstration programme ondifferent aspects of bamboo for the Ranger trainees from Darjeeling.

✦ AFRI, Jodhpur has organized one day Workshop on Combating Desertification Programme.

✦ Himalayan Forest Research Institute (HFRI), Shimla has organized a two day’s “Farmers Training Programmeon Wild Apricot”.

✦ IFP, Ranchi organized a five days Master Training-cum-field demonstration programme on “ModernTechnique of Lac Cultivation” for trainees sponsored by Shellac Export Promotion Council, Kolkata.

✦ Centre for Forestry Research and Human Resource Development (CFRHRD), Chhindwara organizedone day training programme on “Forest Pests/Diseases Management” for SFD officials.

✦ Regional Workshops on Formation of Extension Strategies have been organized to develop extensionplan for each region coming under various institutes of ICFRE. Four such workshops at TFRI, Jabalpur,AFRI, Jodhpur, IWST, Bangalore and FRI, Dehradun have been successfully conducted so far.

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✦ The IPIRTI provides training on forest product utilization for plywood industry and trade, andallied industries, imparting technical education training at under graduate, postgraduate and/or anyother level in technology of forest products, adhesive and paper laminates, and/or synthetic finishing

development equipments.

✦ The research and training activities of the Institute are carried out under the supervision andwith the approval of the Research Advisory Committee.

✦ Training and Education activities were carried out for the following during the year.

✧ HRD for industries.

✧ For Officers of regulating/resource management departments viz. Forests, Excise,Customs, Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS, the national standardization organization)

✧ Projects for engineering students as a partial fulfillment for completion ofengineering degree in Chemical and Mechanical engineering streams.


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✧ To facilitate research leading to Ph.D. degree from FRI deemed university in the field ofWood Science & Technology.

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✦ The institute as a sectoral management institute, imparts education in forest management withspecific objectives to provide training in management and related subjects to persons from ForestServices, Forest Departments, Forest Development Corporations and forest related institutes.

✦ The institute conducted twenty nine training programme in which 473 participants participatedduring the year.

✦ Twelve workshopswere also conducted inwhich 527 personsparticipated.

✦ The IIFM continuedto conduct Post Gradu-ate Diploma in For-estry Management(PGDFM) and PostMasters course onNatural ResourcedManagement (NRM)during the year. Place-ment of the successfulstudents in various sec-tors are also carried outby IIFM (Fig.80).

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✦ The thrust of this scheme is on capacity building of the Indian Forest Service officers throughorganizing in-service short-term refresher courses. During the year, the Ministry sponsored 41 one-week courses in the premier training/management institutions in the country on a wide range ofdisciplines including human resource development financial management, environmental impactassessment and auditing, intellectual property rights issues in forestry, policy and legal issues, goodgovernance, non-timber forest product management, forest certification, ecotourism-wildlife andhabitat management, impact of global warming and climate change on forests and biodiversity,

✦ GIS- a decision tool for forestry planning and management, economics of conservation areas,effective leadership & conflict resolution, management of change, capative management of wildanimals, conservation and development of medicinal plants, bamboo resource development forlivelihood generation for tribal and rural communities, internet application & website developmentetc., Besides this, one IFS officer has been sponsored to pursue long-term course offered by theIndian Institute of Public Administration (IIPA), New Delhi.

✦ During the year, the Ministry also sponsored 14 training workshops for the IFS officers on emergingtopics/themes of regional, national and international importance like Forest Certification-Implications on forestry in India, Wildlife Crime: Strategies to prevent organized Poaching, ClimateChange Mitigation: Role of Forestry and Sinks Projects within the CDM Framework, Training

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Needs Assessment at various levels of Forestry Services, Effect of Weeds on Productivityof Forest Plantations and Natural Forests and different Cost Effective Methods for

their Control, Strengthening GIS Implementation in Indian Forestry.

✦ The Ministry has revised the Syllabus /Course contents for the IFS probationers at theIGNFA, Dehradun and made applicable to the probationers of 2005 batch onwards.

✦ A country report has been submitted on “Stocktaking of National Forest Invasive SpeciesActivities” to the Asia Pacific Forest Invasive Species Network (APFISN) FAO, Bangkok during

October, 2005.

✦ The Ministry has revised the action plan for “Management of prospective gregarious flowering ofbamboos in the north eastern states” and has been monitoring the progress of implementation of

action plan through a Central Monitoring Committee.

✦ During the year, the Ministry also decided to organize six-week duration induction courses for thepromoted SFS officers of the states. The state Governments have been requested to modify their concerned

recruitment rules to make these courses compulsory.

✦ The Division has brought out a booklet on “Training Programmes for the forest officers during 2005-06”. A “Compendium of Important Orders/ Circulars/ Guidelines of the Government” concerning forest

and wildlife of the Ministry has also been brought out.


The budget allocation during 2005-06 of this scheme was Rs.1.40 crore (Plan).

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Wildlife education and training is primarily looked after by the Wildlife Institute of India, an autonomousinstitute of the Ministry for imparting training to government and non-government personnel to carry outresearch and training activities and advice on matters of conservation and management of wildlife resources.The Institute conducted various training and academic programmes during the year as follows:

✦ IX M.Sc. (Wildlife Science) Course: The IX M.Sc. course in Wildlife Science, which commenced fromJuly 2003 has completed successfully.

✦ X M.Sc. (Wildlife Science): The ongoing X M.Sc. course in Wildlife Science commenced from July2005 with eight meritorious students, who were selected after a National Entrance Test. As a part of thecourse curriculum, the students were familiarized with animal tracks, local birds and plant identificationbesides field biology and natural history.

✦ XXVI P.G. Diploma Course in Wildlife Management, September 1, 2004 to May 31, 2005: TheDiploma course commenced on 1

st September, 2004 with 28 officer trainees. As part of the training

curriculum, the officer trainees were taken to Melghat Tiger Reserve from April 6-25, 2005 forManagement Plan Exercise. The officer trainees conducted field surveys and exercises to collect

first hand information on the resources, its problems and existing management practices. Allofficers successfully completed the nine month course. Eight officers achieved Honours.

✦ XXVII Post Graduate Diploma Course, September 1, 2005 to May 31, 2006: XXVII PostGraduate Diploma Course in Wildlife Management commenced from September 1, 2005.

In all nineteen officer trainees joined the course of which fourteen candidates were fromdifferent states of the country.

✦ XXI Certificate Course in Wildlife Management, November 1, 2005 to January31, 2006: The XXI Certificate Course in Wildlife Management (three months)


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commenced from November 1, 2005. Twenty-one officer trainees have joined the course, of whichfive officer trainees were from abroad.

✦ Nature guide training programme, April 25-30, 2005 was organized in collaboration with theUttaranchal Forest Department for the local educated youths from the villages around GangotriNational Park. Twenty four trainees joined the course, of which four participants were from theUttaranchal Forest Department and the rest from the adjacent villages of Gangotri National Park.

✦ Training of Wildlife Staff of Himachal Pradesh State Forest Department in “Abundance Estimationand Monitoring of Pheasants” was conducted from April 28-May 4, 2005. Over 700 forest andwildlife staff and over 20 officers (ACF and above) of H.P. Forest Department were trained inabundance estimation and monitoring of pheasants.

✦ The training of Wildlife Staff of Uttaranchal State Forest Department in ‘Wildlife AbundanceEstimation and Monitoring in Gopeshwar, was organized on May 16, 2005. The institute conductedthe training for over 130 forest and wildlife staff of Kedarnath Wildlife Division and other ForestDivisions of Garhwal Circle.

✦ A one-week Compulsory Training Course for IFS officers on ‘Wildlife Management: Issues, Concernsand Practices was held in Dehradun, from June 20-26, 2005. Seventeen participants attended inthe course from 14 States/UT of the country.

✦ A Vacation Training Programme on Bioresources for School Children, was organized in Dehradun,from June 10-25, 2005 to inculcate among school students an appreciation of the importance ofbiological resources of the country, their use and management; to create opportunities for studentsfor hands-on experience in the laboratory/field on the subject of bioresources; and to study locallyavailable bioresources, their sustainable use and conservation.

✦ A Sensitizing Workshop for All India Tiger, Large Canivores, Ungulate and Habitat Status Evaluationand Monitoring was held at the India Habitat Centre, New Delhi. The Principle Chief Conservator

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of Forests, Chief Wildlife Wardens and Field Directors/Deputy Directors of TigerReserves participated in the workshop.

✦ Orientation Course on “Wildlife Conservation and Management” was organized bythe WII for 10 participants from the office of the Comptroller & Auditor General (C&AG),

Government of India at the Institute. This course was designed to provide a better perspectiveof the range of issues, concerns and practices in the field of wildlife and protected area

management in the country.

✦ Regional Workshops on All India Tiger Co-predators, Prey and Habitat Monitoring wasconducted at regional level at four places viz. Corbett Tiger Reserve (Uttaranchal), Kanha National

Park (M.P.), Bandipur Tiger Reserve (Karnataka) and Kaziranga National Park (Assam) for trainingthe spearhead teams and team of trainers from states across the country.

✦ Orientation Programme for research fellow. An orientation was conducted from December 8-27,2005 for 28 research fellows, who joined the Institute under the project “Monitoring tigers, co-predators,

prey and their habitat”.

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✦ The WII celebrated various International/National days like World Environment Day, Wildlife Weeketc. through diverse activities with the aim at inculcating awareness sensitization and knowledge on protectionand conservation of wildlife.

✦ National Wildlife Database (NWD) Cell was created with the objectives of to provide readily accessibleand comprehensive information on the conservation status of biogeographic regions, habitat types, individualanimal species and the network of protected areas in the country, and to establish linkages with researchers,protected area managers and planners and also with other data centres as well as to facilitate research andtraining activities in wildlife.

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