Forest Survey of India

Forest Survey of India
भारतीय वन सर्वेक्षण
AbbreviationFSI
PredecessorPreinvestment Survey of Forest Resources (PISFR) established in 1965
Formation1 June 1981; 43 years ago (1 June 1981)
HeadquartersDehradun, Uttarakhand, India
Region served
India
Director General
Anoop Singh, IFS[1]
Parent organisation
Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Government of India[2]
Websitefsi.nic.in

Forest Survey of India (FSI), founded in June 1981 and headquartered at Dehradun in Uttarakhand, is the Government of India Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change organization which conducts forest surveys, studies and researches to periodically monitor the changing situations of land and forest resources and present the data for national planning, conservation and sustainable management of environmental protection as well as for the implementation of social forestry projects.[3][4][2][5][6]

  1. ^ "Forest Survey of India. Who's who". fsi.nic.in. Retrieved 13 June 2024.
  2. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference fsi8 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ "Forest Survey of India, Dehradun". Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India. Archived from the original on 8 May 2013. Retrieved 6 April 2008.
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference fsi5 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ Kailash Chandra Bebarta, 2007, Forest Planning at Landscape Level: A Case Study of Working Plan.
  6. ^ Prodyut Bhattacharya, 2017, Redefining Forestry for Effective Livelihoods.