Indian Forest Service
The service implements the National Forest Policy[4] in order to ensure the ecological stability of the country through the protection and participatory sustainable management of natural resources.The members of the service also manage the National Parks, Tiger Reserve, Wildlife Sanctuaries and other Protected Areas of the country.A forest service officer also hold positions of Chairman and Member Secretary in the State Pollution Control Boards.[6][7] Officers from 1867 to 1885 were trained in Germany and France, and from 1885 to 1905 at Cooper's Hill, London, also known as Royal Indian Engineering College.Officers are recruited through an open competitive examination conducted by the UPSC[8] and then trained for about two years by the Central Government at Indira Gandhi National Forest Academy.On acceptance to the Forest Service, new entrants undergo a probationary period (and are referred to as Officer Trainees).[10][11] After completion of their training, the officers are awarded a master's degree in Science (Forestry) of Forest Research Institute.At times the states may have more than one post of PCCF and in that case, one of them is designated as the Head of Forest Force (HOFF).[29][30][31] In 2015, Tehelka reported that more than 30 names of Forest Service officers who might have been awarded dubious or suspect Ph.D.
SanskritDate of establishmentCountryIndira Gandhi National Forest AcademyDehradunUttarakhandMinistry of Environment, Forests and Climate ChangeGovernmentalNatural ResourcesCadre strengthDirector General of ForestsCabinet SecretaryT. V. SomanathanAll India ServicesIndian Administrative ServiceIndian Police ServiceAll India Services Act, 1951ecological stabilityHead of Forest ForcesBritish Government in IndiaGovernment of India Act 1935Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate ChangeDietrich BrandisBritish RajGermanGermanyFranceRoyal Indian Engineering CollegeUniversity of OxfordSir William SchlichUniversity of CambridgeUniversity of EdinburghindependenceHari SinghAll India ServiceJoint SecretaryAdditional SecretaryLal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of AdministrationMussoorieEnvironment ProtectionClimate ChangeForest Research InstituteIndian Military AcademySardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Police AcademyWildlife Institute of IndiaBombay Natural History SocietyArunachal PradeshMizoramUnion TerritoriesJammu and KashmirHimachal PradeshPunjabRajasthanHaryanaUttar PradeshJharkhandOdishaGujaratMaharashtraMadhya PradeshChhattisgarhWest BengalSikkimMeghalayaManipurTripuraNagalandTelanganaAndhra PradeshKarnatakaTamil NaduKeralaGovernment of IndiaHead of State Forest ForceHead of Forest ForceCentral Bureau of InvestigationTehelkaNational Commission for Scheduled TribesCyril BeesonFrederick Walter ChampionHugh CleghornPeter ClutterbuckJames Sykes GambleEdgar PeacockWilhelm Philipp Daniel SchlichBertram SmythiesE. A. SmythiesRobert Scott TroupP. SrinivasSanjiv ChaturvediHemendra Singh PanwarFateh Singh RathoreShri P. SrinivasIndian Council of Forestry Research and EducationAndhra Pradesh Forest DepartmentMaharashtra Forest DepartmentKerala Forest and Wildlife DepartmentVan Vigyan KendraDaily News and AnalysisHT Media LtdIndia TodayHindustan TimesDeccan ChronicleThe Economic TimesDeccan HeraldThe New Indian ExpressThe Times of IndiaCentral Civil ServicesIndian Foreign ServiceIndian Audit and Accounts ServiceIndian Civil Accounts ServiceIndian Corporate Law ServiceIndian Defence Accounts ServiceIndian Defence Estates ServiceIndian Economic ServiceIndian Information ServiceIndian Postal ServiceIndian Post and Telecommunication Accounts and Finance ServiceIndian Railway Protection Force ServiceIndian Railway Management ServiceIndian Revenue Service (Custom and Indirect Taxes)Indian Revenue Service (Income Tax)Delhi, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Lakshadweep, Daman & Diu and Dadra & Nagar Haveli (Civil) ServicesDelhi, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Lakshadweep, Daman & Diu and Dadra & Nagar Haveli (Police) ServicesBihar Administrative ServiceGujarat Administrative Service