Indian Forest Service, the Glossary

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1. 103 relations: Additional secretary to the Government of India, All India Services, All India Services Act, 1951, Andhra Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh Forest Department, Anniversary, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bertram Smythies, Bihar, Bombay Natural History Society, British Raj, Cabinet Secretary (India), Cadre (military), Central Bureau of Investigation, Chhattisgarh, Climate change, Country, Cyril Beeson, Daily News and Analysis, Deccan Chronicle, Deccan Herald, Dehradun, Dietrich Brandis, Director General of Forests, E. A. Smythies, Ecological stability, Edgar Peacock, Environmental protection, Fateh Singh Rathore, Forest Research Institute (India), France, Frederick Walter Champion, Germany, Goa, Government of India, Government of India Act 1935, Gujarat, Hari Singh (administrator), Haryana, Head of Forest Forces, Hemendra Singh Panwar, Himachal Pradesh, Hindustan Times, HT Media, Hugh Cleghorn (forester), India, India Today, Indian Administrative Service, Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education, ... Expand index (53 more) »

2. 1966 establishments in India
3. All India Services
4. Forest administration in India

Additional secretary to the Government of India

Additional Secretary (often abbreviated as AS, GoI or Union Additional Secretary or Additional Secretary to Government of India) is a post and a rank under the Central Staffing Scheme of the Government of India.

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All India Services

The All India Services (AIS) comprises three Civil Services of India common to the centre and state governments, which includes the Indian Administrative Service (IAS), the Indian Police Service (IPS), and the Indian Forest Service (IFS).

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All India Services Act, 1951

The All India Services Act, 1951 (IAST) is an Indian legislation. Indian Forest Service and All India Services Act, 1951 are all India Services.

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Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh (abbr. AP) is a state in the southern coastal region of India.

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Andhra Pradesh Forest Department

Andhra Pradesh Forest Department is one of the administrative divisions of Government of Andhra Pradesh.

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Anniversary

An anniversary is the date on which an event took place or an institution was founded in a previous year, and may also refer to the commemoration or celebration of that event.

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Arunachal Pradesh

Arunachal Pradesh is a state in northeast India.

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Assam

Assam is a state in northeastern India, south of the eastern Himalayas along the Brahmaputra and Barak River valleys.

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Bertram Smythies

Bertram Evelyn (Bill) Smythies (11 July 1912 (Nainital, India) – 27 June 1999 (Redhill, England)) was a British forester and ornithologist.

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Bihar

Bihar is a state in Eastern India.

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Bombay Natural History Society

The Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS), founded on 15 September 1883, is one of the largest non-governmental organisations in India engaged in conservation and biodiversity research.

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British Raj

The British Raj (from Hindustani, 'reign', 'rule' or 'government') was the rule of the British Crown on the Indian subcontinent,.

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Cabinet Secretary (India)

The Cabinet Secretary (ISO: Kaibinēṭa Saciva) is the top-most executive official and senior-most civil servant of the Government of India.

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Cadre (military)

A cadre is the complement of commissioned officers and non-commissioned officers of a military unit responsible for training the rest of the unit.

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Central Bureau of Investigation

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is the domestic crime investigating agency of India.

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Chhattisgarh

Chhattisgarh is a landlocked state in Central India.

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Climate change

In common usage, climate change describes global warming—the ongoing increase in global average temperature—and its effects on Earth's climate system.

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Country

A country is a distinct part of the world, such as a state, nation, or other political entity.

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Cyril Beeson

Cyril Frederick Cherrington Beeson CIE, D.Sc. (1889–1975) was an English entomologist and forest conservator who worked in India.

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Daily News and Analysis

The Daily News and Analysis, abbreviated as DNA, is a Hindi-language news program on Zee news that was earlier a newspaper with multiple local city editions across India.

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Deccan Chronicle

Deccan Chronicle is an Indian English-language daily newspaper founded by Rajagopal Mudaliar in the 1930s and currently owned by Samagrah Commercial Pvt Limited.

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Deccan Herald

Deccan Herald is an Indian English language daily newspaper published from the Indian state of Karnataka.

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Dehradun

Dehradun, also known as Dehra Doon, is the capital and the most populous city of the Indian state of Uttarakhand.

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Dietrich Brandis

Sir Dietrich Brandis (31 March 1824 – 28 May 1907) was a German-British botanist and forestry academic and administrator, who worked with the British Imperial Forestry Service in colonial India for nearly 30 years.

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Director General of Forests

Director General of Forests is a term used in various countries for high officials in forest management and forestry. Indian Forest Service and Director General of Forests are forest administration in India.

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E. A. Smythies

Evelyn Arthur Smythies, CIE (19 March 1885Bateman, Robert. Stamp collectors' who's who. London: Stanley Gibbons, 1960, p. 81. – 10 January 1975), was a distinguished forester and philatelist, born of British parents in India.

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Ecological stability

In ecology, an ecosystem is said to possess ecological stability (or equilibrium) if it is capable of returning to its equilibrium state after a perturbation (a capacity known as resilience) or does not experience unexpected large changes in its characteristics across time.

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Edgar Peacock

Lieutenant Colonel Edgar Henry William Peacock, (11 February 1893 – March 1955) was a decorated British Officer commanding special forces operations behind Japanese lines in Burma during the Second World War.

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Environmental protection

Environmental protection is the practice of protecting the natural environment by individuals, groups and governments.

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Fateh Singh Rathore

Fateh Singh Rathore (10 August 1938 – 1 March 2011) was an Indian tiger conservationist.

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Forest Research Institute (India)

The Forest Research Institute (FRI; वन अनुसन्धान संस्थान) is a Natural Resource Service training institute of the Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education and is an institution in the field of forestry research in India for Indian Forest Service cadres and all State Forest Service cadres.

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France

France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.

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Frederick Walter Champion

Frederick Walter Champion (born 24 August 1893 in Surrey, UK; died 1970 in Scotland) was a British forester, who worked in British India and East Africa.

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Germany

Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), is a country in Central Europe.

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Goa

Goa is a state on the southwestern coast of India within the Konkan region, geographically separated from the Deccan highlands by the Western Ghats.

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Government of India

The Government of India (IAST: Bhārat Sarkār, legally the Union Government or Union of India and colloquially known as the Central Government) is the central executive authority of the Republic of India, a federal republic located in South Asia, consisting of 28 states and eight union territories.

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Government of India Act 1935

The Government of India Act 1935 (25 & 26 Geo. 5. c. 42) was an act passed by the British Parliament that originally received royal assent in August 1935.

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Gujarat

Gujarat is a state along the western coast of India.

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Hari Singh (administrator)

Hari Singh (1910–2003) was the Inspector General of Forests of India in the 1960s.

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Haryana

Haryana (ISO: Hariyāṇā) is an Indian state located in the northern part of the country. Indian Forest Service and Haryana are 1966 establishments in India.

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Head of Forest Forces

In India, the Head of Forest Forces (HoFF) is the highest ranking officer of the Indian Forest Service (IFS), one of the three All India Services with the other two being IAS and IPS, in the Indian States and Union Territories. Indian Forest Service and Head of Forest Forces are all India Services and forest administration in India.

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Hemendra Singh Panwar

Hemendra Singh Panwar is an Indian conservationist and civil servant, known for his efforts in the fields of wildlife and conservation.

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Himachal Pradesh

Himachal Pradesh ("Snow-laden Mountain Province") is a state in the northern part of India.

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Hindustan Times

Hindustan Times is an Indian English-language daily newspaper based in Delhi.

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HT Media is an Indian mass media company based in Delhi, India.

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Hugh Cleghorn (forester)

Hugh Francis Clarke Cleghorn (9 August 1820 – 16 May 1895) was a Madras-born Scottish physician, botanist, forester and land owner.

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India

India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.

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India Today

India Today is a weekly Indian English-language news magazine published by Living Media India Limited.

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Indian Administrative Service

The Indian Administrative Service (IAS) is the administrative arm of the All India Services of Government of India. Indian Forest Service and Indian Administrative Service are all India Services.

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Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education

The Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education (ICFRE) is an autonomous organisation or governmental agency under the MoEFCC, Government of India. Indian Forest Service and Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education are forest administration in India.

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Indian independence movement

The Indian Independence Movement was a series of historic events in South Asia with the ultimate aim of ending British colonial rule.

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Indian Military Academy

The Indian Military Academy (IMA) is one of the oldest military academies in India, and trains officers for the Indian Army.

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Indian rupee

The Indian rupee (symbol: ₹; code: INR) is the official currency in India.

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Indira Gandhi National Forest Academy

Indira Gandhi National Forest Academy (IGNFA) is a forest service training institute under the Ministry of Environment and Forests of India, which was originally as Indian Forest College, established in 1938 for training of senior forest officers.

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James Sykes Gamble

James Sykes Gamble (2 July 1847 – 16 October 1925) was an English botanist who specialized in the flora of the Indian sub-continent; he became Director of the British Imperial Forest School at Dehradun, and a Fellow of the Royal Society.

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Jammu and Kashmir (union territory)

Jammu and Kashmir is a region administered by India as a union territory and consists of the southern portion of the larger Kashmir region, which has been the subject of a dispute between India and Pakistan since 1947 and between India and China since 1959.

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Jharkhand

Jharkhand is a state in eastern India.

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Joint secretary to the Government of India

Joint Secretary to the Government of India (often abbreviated as JS, GoI or Union Joint Secretary or Joint Secretary to Union of India) is a post under the Central Staffing Scheme and the third highest non-political executive rank in the Government of India.

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Karnataka

Karnataka (ISO), also known colloquially as Karunāḍu, is a state in the southwestern region of India.

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Kerala

Kerala (/), called Keralam in Malayalam, is a state on the Malabar Coast of India.

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Kerala Forest and Wildlife Department

Kerala Forests & Wildlife Department is a department of the Government of Kerala responsible for forestry and wildlife management in the state of Kerala, India.

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Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration

Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration (LBSNAA) is a civil service training institute on public policy and public administration in Mussoorie, Uttarakhand in India.

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Madhya Pradesh

Madhya Pradesh (meaning 'central province') is a state in central India.

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Maharashtra

Maharashtra (ISO: Mahārāṣṭra) is a state in the western peninsular region of India occupying a substantial portion of the Deccan Plateau.

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Maharashtra Forest Department

The Maharashtra Forest Department is a department of the Indian state of Maharashtra responsible for forestry and wildlife management.

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Manipur

Manipur (Kangleipak|) is a state in northeast India, with the city of Imphal as its capital.

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Meghalaya

Meghalaya (or, "the abode of clouds") is a state in northeast India.

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Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change

The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) is an Indian government ministry.

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Mizoram

Mizoram is a state in northeastern India, with Aizawl as its seat of government and largest city.

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Mussoorie

Mussoorie is a hill station and a municipal board, in Dehradun city in the Dehradun district of the Indian state Uttarakhand.

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Nagaland

Nagaland is a state in the north-eastern region of India.

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National Commission for Scheduled Tribes

National Commission for Scheduled Tribes (NCST) is an Indian constitutional body that was established through Constitution (89th Amendment) Act, 2003.

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National Forest Policy, 1988

The National Forest Policy, 1988 is an Act of the Parliament of India to revise the previously enacted National Forest Policy of 1952. Indian Forest Service and National Forest Policy, 1988 are forest administration in India.

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Natural Resources

Natural Resources is a 1970 soul album released by Motown girl group Martha Reeves and the Vandellas on the Gordy (Motown) label.

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Odisha

Odisha (English), formerly Orissa (the official name until 2011), is an Indian state located in Eastern India.

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P. Srinivas

Pandillapalli Srinivas was an Indian Forest Service officer (Deputy Conservator of Forests, Karnataka), a Kirti Chakra recipient (second in order of precedence of peacetime gallantry awards), who is widely considered to be one of the most outstanding figures in Indian forest conservation, served as Assistant Commander of Special Task Force(STF) to nab gangster Veerappan.

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Peter Clutterbuck

Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Peter Henry Clutterbuck (28 September 1868 – 20 December 1951) was a British colonial civil servant and expert in forestry conservation, who worked as the Inspector General of Forests to the Government of India.

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Punjab, India

Punjab (Also and other variants) is a state in northwestern India.

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Rajasthan

Rajasthan (lit. 'Land of Kings') is a state in northwestern India.

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Rajiv Gauba

Rajiv Gauba (born 15 August 1959; IAST) is an Indian civil servant who is currently serving as the Cabinet Secretary of India since from 30 August 2019.

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Robert Scott Troup

Robert Scott Troup CMG CIE FRS (13 December 1874 – 1 October 1939) was a British forestry expert.

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Royal Indian Engineering College

The Royal Indian Engineering College (or RIEC) was a British college of Civil Engineering run by the India Office to train civil engineers for service in the Indian Public Works Department.

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Sanjiv Chaturvedi

Sanjiv Chaturvedi (born 21 December 1974) is an Indian Forest Service (IFS) officer posted as Chief Conservator of Forest (Research) at Haldwani in the Nainital district of Uttarakhand.

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Sanskrit

Sanskrit (attributively संस्कृत-,; nominally संस्कृतम्) is a classical language belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages.

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Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Police Academy

Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Police Academy (SVPNPA) is the civil service training institution in India.

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Sikkim

Sikkim is a state in northeastern India.

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Tamil Nadu

Tamil Nadu (TN) is the southernmost state of India.

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Tehelka

Tehelka is an Indian news magazine known for its investigative journalism and sting operations.

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Telangana

Telangana (ISO) is a state in India situated in the southern-central part of the Indian peninsula on the high Deccan Plateau.

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The Economic Times

The Economic Times is an Indian English-language business-focused daily newspaper.

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The New Indian Express

The New Indian Express is an Indian English-language broadsheet daily newspaper published by the Chennai-based Express Publications.

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The Times of India

The Times of India, also known by its abbreviation TOI, is an Indian English-language daily newspaper and digital news media owned and managed by The Times Group.

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Tripura

Tripura is a state in Northeast India.

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Union territory

A union territory is a type of administrative division in the Republic of India.

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University of Cambridge

The University of Cambridge is a public collegiate research university in Cambridge, England.

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University of Edinburgh

The University of Edinburgh (University o Edinburgh, Oilthigh Dhùn Èideann; abbreviated as Edin. in post-nominals) is a public research university based in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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University of Oxford

The University of Oxford is a collegiate research university in Oxford, England.

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Uttar Pradesh

Uttar Pradesh ('North Province') is a state in northern India.

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Uttarakhand

Uttarakhand, formerly known as Uttaranchal (the official name until 2007), is a state in northern India.

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Van Vigyan Kendra

Van Vigyan Kendra (VVK) or Forest Science Centres (FSC) has been established by Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education (ICFRE) of the Ministry of Environment and Forests, Govt. of India.

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West Bengal

West Bengal (Bengali: Poshchim Bongo,, abbr. WB) is a state in the eastern portion of India.

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Wildlife Institute of India

The Wildlife Institute of India (WII) is an autonomous natural resource service institution established in 1982 under the Ministry of Environment Forest and Climate change, Government of India.

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Wilhelm Schlich

Sir Wilhelm Philipp Daniel Schlich (28 February 1840 in Flonheim – 28 September 1925 in Oxford), also known as William Schlich, was a German-born forester who worked extensively in India for the British administration.

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See also

1966 establishments in India

• 54th Infantry Division (India)
• All India Democratic Youth Organisation
• First Indira Gandhi ministry
• Haryana
• Indian Forest Service
• Kothavalasa–Kirandul line
• Ministers' Hill Baptist Church
• Second Nanda ministry
• South Central Railway zone
• St. Xavier's School, Rohini

All India Services

• All India Services
• All India Services Act, 1951
• Amitabh Thakur
• Anish Dayal Singh
• B. Prasada Rao
• Bhupendra Yadav
• Head of Forest Forces
• Indian Administrative Service
• Indian Forest Service
• Indian Police Service
• Karam Singh Raju
• Lokanath Behera
• Nitin Agarwal (civil servant)
• Pankaj Kumar Singh
• Piyush Anand
• R. Nataraj
• R. P. Thakur
• S.R. Lakha
• Shakuntala Jakhu
• V. Dinesh Reddy
• V. Joseph Thomas

Forest administration in India

• Ajoba
• Andaman and Nicobar Islands Forest and Plantation Development Corporation
• Daniel Richmond
• Department of Forest and Wildlife (Punjab)
• Department of Forests (West Bengal)
• Director General of Forests
• Eco-Sensitive Zone
• Forest Conservation Act, 1980
• Forest division
• Forest range
• Forest range officer
• Head of Forest Forces
• Herbert George Billson
• Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education
• Indian Forest Service
• Joint Forest Management
• Manjummel Boys
• National Forest Policy, 1988
• Nireekshana
• Raavan (2010 film)
• Raavanan (2010 film)
• Sherni (2021 film)
• Yathra

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Forest_Service

Also known as Conservator of Forests, Conservator of Forests (India), IFS (forestry), IFS Officer, IFS Officers, Imperial Forest Department, Imperial Forest Service, Imperial Forestry Service, Indian Forest Service Examination, Indian Forestry Service, PCCF, Principal Chief Conservator of Forests, Principal Chief Conservator of Forests (India).

, Indian independence movement, Indian Military Academy, Indian rupee, Indira Gandhi National Forest Academy, James Sykes Gamble, Jammu and Kashmir (union territory), Jharkhand, Joint secretary to the Government of India, Karnataka, Kerala, Kerala Forest and Wildlife Department, Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Maharashtra Forest Department, Manipur, Meghalaya, Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Mizoram, Mussoorie, Nagaland, National Commission for Scheduled Tribes, National Forest Policy, 1988, Natural Resources, Odisha, P. Srinivas, Peter Clutterbuck, Punjab, India, Rajasthan, Rajiv Gauba, Robert Scott Troup, Royal Indian Engineering College, Sanjiv Chaturvedi, Sanskrit, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Police Academy, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Tehelka, Telangana, The Economic Times, The New Indian Express, The Times of India, Tripura, Union territory, University of Cambridge, University of Edinburgh, University of Oxford, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Van Vigyan Kendra, West Bengal, Wildlife Institute of India, Wilhelm Schlich.