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.[1] 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.[2]

  1. ^ National Forest Policy, 1988 - Resolution Ministry of Environment and Forests. Last accessed 21 November 2021.
  2. ^ Guarding the green blanket[usurped], The Hindu Sunday magazine, March 17, 2002