The Indian Forest Service (IFS)
India has a vast natural resource for the balanced and all round development of
these resources vast machinery are also required. India has an area of
635,400 km2 designated as forests, about 19.32 percent of the country. India
forest is one of them. The Indian Forest Service( IFS) is the Forestry service
of India. It is one of the three All India Services of the Government of India.
Service was created in 1966 for protection, conservation, and regeneration of
forest resources. Selected candidates are sent for foundation training at the Lal
Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration at Mussourie. This is
followed by Forest Service-specific orientation at the Indira Gandhi National
Forest Academy at Dehradun, with training on forest and wildlife
management, soil conservation,surveying, Scheduled Tribes, and handling weapons.
After completing the academies, candidates go through a year of on-the-job field
training in the state to which he or she is assigned. There is a probationary
period three years during which they are posted as Assistant Conservators of
Forests. On completion of this,and after a total period of four years of service
in the junior scale, officers are appointed to the Senior Time Scale and are
entitled to be posted as the Deputy Conservators of Forests or Divisional Forest
Officers in charge of districts/forest divisions.
Ranks of the Indian Forest Service are as follows:
- Probationary Officer / Assistant Conservator of Forests
- Deputy Conservator of Forests
- Conservator of Forests (CFs)
- Chief Conservator of Forests (CCFs)
- Additional Principal Chief Conservator of Forests (Addl.PCCFs)
- Principal Chief Conservator of Forests (PCCF) - highest post in a State
- Director General of Forests - highest post at Centre, selected from amongst the senior-most PCCFs of states.
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