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| Govt aims at universalisation of Joint Forest Management |
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2006/4/17
New Delhi, Mar 21: Government today said it has identified gaps in forest management programme and was working towards universalisation of Joint Forest Management (JFM) with Multi-stakeholder Partnership approach to generate resources.
"Having identified the gaps such as lack of financial resources and capacity building, we are developing an innovative mechanism to overcome the problems," Minister of State for Environment and Forests Namo Narain Meena said here.
"Government aims at universalisation of Joint Forest Management (JFM). The concept of JFM has become the cornerstone for people's participation in forest management," he said observing the World Forestry Day today.
"Of the total 1,73,000 villages in the forest fringe, JFM has been implemented in 61,000 villages and around 90,000 JFM committees have been formed covering more than 17 million hectares," an official release quoted him as having said.
Meena said the final report of the National Forest Commission that was set up to review the forest and wildlife sector of the country would soon be tabled.
He said the government has assigned the ownership of Non-timber forest produce to the forest dependant communities living in and around forests for the purpose of collection, processing and trade.
"One has to recognise the role of forest in rural livelihoods and to secure environmental security for future generations," Environment Secretary Pradipto Ghosh said.
Global warming is posing a great challenge before us and our efforts to save forests can enable us meet this challenge, he added.
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| Source:http://www.newkerala.com |
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